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A FAIRY tale of three children, who wished to become insects to escape doing their lessons. The two boys wished to be an ant and a cricket, and the girl to be a butterfly. The present volume relates the adventures of the boy who became an ant, among different species of ants, and afterwards among bees. At the end of the book he meets his sister as a caterpillar, and another volume is promised giving her adventures as a butterfly. The book is well illustrated, and the account of insect life appears to be fairly accurate.
The Prince and his Ants (Ciondolino).
Vamba (Luigi Bertelli). Translated from the fourth Italian edition by S. F. Woodruff, and edited by Vernon L. Kellogg. Pp. x+275. (New York: H. Holt and Co., 1910.) Price 1.35 dollars net.
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The Prince and his Ants (Ciondolino). Nature 84, 138 (1910). https://doi.org/10.1038/084138c0
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