CHAPTER II.--COMPASSION.

The artist Gros reproached a young man for cruelty towards a butterfly, 67 Lyonnet, the naturalist, equally insisted on tenderness towards even the lowest forms of life, 68 The writer records his adventure with a drone, which he thought he had killed, in a moment of petulance, 69 His happiness on seeing the insect revive, 70 Begins to study the insect seriously on a Swiss tour, 70 Another extract from Madame Michelet's Journal, 71 In which is described the author's retreat at Montreux, on the shore of the Lake of Geneva, 72 In one of her walks she observes a combat between a stag-beetle and a beetle of inferior size, 73 The stag-beetle is captured for the purpose of examination, 73 Effect produced upon it by the vapour of ether, 74 Regret expressed at having terminated its existence, 75