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THIS is a pleasingly-written and attractive little book, containing a series of short tales and sketches, the first and largest of which relates a boy's visit to an ant-hill, his adventures, and what he found there. Another tale relates the adventures of a young bee; while most of the others consist of allegorical or symbolical presentations of various phases of human life As the authoress admits, the descriptions of the events in ants' nests are taken from different species, and the large queen is a Termite. But the story may serve to interest young readers in ant-life and lead them to read other books on the subject.
Fact and Fable.
By Effie Johnson. Illustrated by Olive Allen. Pp. 117. (London: Chapman and Hall, Ltd., 1901.) Price 6s.
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Fact and Fable . Nature 64, 76 (1901). https://doi.org/10.1038/064076b0
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