Excerpt from The Dublin University Magazine, Vol. 12: A Literary and Political Journal; July to December, 1838 Yet, despite the drowsy grumblings of the Norwegian prophetess, we think it would be easy enough to shew both the justice and the expediency of a post marten: jurisdiction in some in stances; particularly such as this. In the first place, toreqnire us to catch such ephemeral insects as our present batch of culprits alive, would be con denning the hapless and bewildered critic to lay at snap-dragon for his pm indeed, h this rule, the telluh e unlucky wig t whom we had heenhrisken htowhipu thevery What he hadc i ped the s elight claim exemption rom our knives long before we could whet them for the tarifying. Besides, in denli with this as with any other species noxi ous vermin, it should he remembered that it is only their accumulation in arms that renders the nuisance worthy of notice; nor, on the other hand, should it be forgotten that death is far from extinguishing it - the air which have poisoned continuing nit with elements of their repro ducfion. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.