It was Maeterlinck who described Jean Henri Fabre es the insects'! Homer," a very happy description. Maeterlinck's fascinating ''Life of the Bee" would probably never have been written but for Fabre. Quite a number of his books have recently deen done in English, and row two more are announced. One is "The Life of the Weevil," the cther "More Beetles," an@_ both} vere translated by Mr. Teixeira do Mattos, Charles Darwin could not dave foreseen the English public there is to-day for natural history books. But in Fabre's early work he foresaw his future, and he described him as a ''savant who thinks luke a philosopher and writes like poet.'"
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