Parables from Nature

Title

en_US Parables from Nature

en_US First series

Description

en_US Margaret Gatty

Creator

en_US Gatty, Alfred See all items with this value

Contributor

en_US Calderon, P.H.

en_US Ewing, Juliana Horatia (Essayist)

Date

2016-01-25T16:08:02Z

en_US 1994-05

en_US 1888

Date Available

2016-01-25T16:08:02Z

Date Issued

en_US 1888

Abstract

en_US The opening life and tribute by her daughter are affectionate testimony. In all, Gatty published five series of parables, originally apparently all done with her own illustrations. I read four of the seventeen stories here. They are predictably hard to swallow. In the first, a dying butterfly asks a caterpillar to care for her eggs. The caterpillar asks around, wanting to learn how to care for them. She cannot believe the lark's answer, namely that they will be caterpillars and that she will be a butterfly. The lesson of trust is then applied again to her death as a butterfly.... The second gets into long disquisitions on the injustice of some bees working while others are queens. In the third, a dying mother bird sends her young off to the Unknown Land to be found by trust and obedience. In the fourth seaweed, a zoophyte, and a bookworm experience how foolish it would be to limit one's belief to the bounds of one's own powers.

Identifier

en_US 1891 (Access ID)

uri

http://hdl.handle.net/10504/77457

Language

en_US eng

Publisher

en_US George Bell & Sons

en_US London

Subject

en_US PR4712.G15 P3 1888 See all items with this value

en_US Gatty See all items with this value

en_US Title Page Scanned See all items with this value

Type

en_US Book, Whole