[syndicate] The Henry James of The Wasps of Zane Grey

[jeff harrison]

WILD HORSE MESA 


Cuckoo Wasps (aka Gold Wasps, 
Ruby Wasps, & Jewel Wasps) are 
parasites (have they 7 flowers?) 
that lay their eggs in the nests 
of other insects (they've, Cuckoo 

The data for a life of Nathaniel Ha 

Wasps, 7 flowers, would you believe 
it's about the finish of the Process? 
see 

thorne are the reverse of copious, and even if they were abundant they would serve but in a limited measure the purpose of the biographer. Ha 

Crowned King when Flamel 
had the stone for the Red 

thorne's career was probably as tranquil and uneventful a one as ever fell 


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RIDERS OF THE PURPLE SAGE 


Gall Wasps 

It is very true, Ha 

paralyze plants, causing 
the plants to form galls 

thorne proceeds, in the Introduction to The Scarlet Letter, that from the original point of view such lustre as he might have contrived to confer upon the name would have appeared more than questionable. 

"Either of these stern and black-browed Puritans would have thought it quite a sufficient retribution for his sins that after so long a lapse of years the old trunk of the family tree, with so much venerable moss upon it, should have borne, as its topmost bough, an idler like myself. No aim that I have ever cherished would they recognise as laudable; no success of 

& shelter the wasps' larvae. 

if my life, beyond its domestic scope, had ever been brightened by success, would they deem otherwise than worthless, if not positively disgraceful. 'What is he?' murmurs one grey shadow of my forefathers to the other. 'A writer of story-books! What kind of a business in life, what manner of glorifying God, or being serviceable to 

The first description of a gall wasp's life cycle 

day and generation, may that be? Why, the degenerate fellow might as well have been a fiddler!' Such are the compliments bandied between my great grandsires and myself across the gulf of time! And yet, let them scorn me as they will, strong traits of their nature have intertwined themselves with mine." 


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THE REDHEAD OUTFIT AND OTHER STORIES 


The White-faced Hornet is 
(attention! implicated again -- 

"In this dismal chamber Fame was won," he writes in Salem in 1836. 

& is black w/ white markings 

a letter from which it will be to our purpose to quote a few lines:— 

"You tell me you have met with troubles and changes. I know not what these may have been; but I can assure you that trouble is the next best thing to enjoyment, and that there is no fate in the world so horrible as to 

& on its face. its grey nest is oft 
suspended from a tree limb 

attention White-faced Hornet Implicated Again, 

among the reviewers Edgar Poe perhaps held the scales the highest. He at any rate rattled them loudest, and pretended, more than any one else, to conduct the weighing-process on scientific principles. Very remarkable was this process of Edgar Poe's, and very extraordinary were his principles; but he had the advantage of being a man of genius, and his intelligence was frequently great. His collection of critical sketches of the American writers flourishing in what M. Taine would call his milieu and moment, is very curious and interesting reading, and it has one quality which ought to keep it from ever being completely forgotten. It is probably the most complete and exquisite specimen of provincialism ever prepared for the edification of men. Poe's judgments are pretentious, spiteful, vulgar; but they contain a great deal of sense and discrimination as well, and here and there, sometimes at frequent intervals, we find a phrase of happy insight imbedded in a patch of the most
 fatuous pedantry. He wrote a chapter upon Hawthorne, and spoke of him on the whole very kindly; 

underlying planets are making themselves known 
and making known injury rubric + 

"I have been measuring coal all day," he writes, during the winter of 1840, "on board of a black little British schooner, in a dismal dock at the north end of the city. Most of the time I paced the deck to keep myself warm; for the wind (north-east, I believe) blew up through the dock as if it had been the pipe of a pair of bellows. The vessel lying deep between two wharves, there was no more delightful prospect, on the right hand and on the left, than the posts and timbers, half immersed in the water and covered with ice, which the rising and falling of successive tides had left upon them, so that they looked like immense icicles. Across the water, however, not more than half a mile off, appeared the Bunker's Hill Monument, and what interested me considerably more, a church-steeple, with the dial of a clock upon it, whereby I was enabled to measure the 

nest preserved in part & tree limb preserved entire 


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THIRTY THOUSAND ON THE HOOF 


Paper Wasps eat nectar & kill caterpillars 
to feed the 

during these years he saw more of his fellow-countrymen, in the shape of odd wanderers, petitioners, and inquirers of every kind, than he had ever done in his native land. The paper entitled "Consular Experiences," in Our Old Home, 

into papier-maché 

an admirable recital of these observations, and a proof that the novelist might have found much material in the opportunities of the consul. On his return to America, in 1860, he drew from his journal a number of pages relating to his observations in England, re-wrote them (with, I should suppose, a good deal of care), and converted them into 

the sound of their assembling is the hooves 
of fauns that rattle in a drained fountain 


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RAIDERS OF SPANISH PEAKS 


Organ Pipe Wasps make 

a new spirit of vigour if I wait quietly for it; perhaps not 

they don't live for air anymore 

   

 
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