Front matter
Alexander Teixeira de Mattos translation
Petty truths, I shall be told, those presented by the habits of a spider or a grasshopper. There are no petty truths today; there is but one truth, whose looking-glass to our uncertain eyes seems broken, though its every fragment, whether reflecting the evolution of a planet or the flight of a bee, contains the supreme law. Maurice Maeterlinck
“What a day it was when I first became a herdsman of ducks!”
INSECT ADVENTURES
BY J. HENRI FABRE
Selections from Alexander Teixeira de Mattos’ Translation of Fabre’s “Souvenirs Entomologiques”
RETOLD FOR YOUNG PEOPLE BY LOUISE SEYMOUR HASBROUCK
ILLUSTRATED BY ELIAS GOLDBERG
NEW YORK DODD, MEAD AND COMPANY 1917
COPYRIGHT, 1917, By DODD, MEAD & COMPANY, Inc.