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Title: Falling in Love
With Other Essays on More Exact Branches of Science

Author: Grant Allen

Release Date: October 7, 2005 [EBook #16807]

Language: English

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FALLING IN LOVE

_WITH OTHER ESSAYS ON MORE EXACT BRANCHES OF SCIENCE_

BY

GRANT ALLEN

LONDON
SMITH, ELDER, & CO., 15 WATERLOO PLACE
1889

[_All rights reserved_]

PREFACE

Some people complain that science is dry. That is, of course, a matter
of taste. For my own part, I like my science and my champagne as dry as
I can get them. But the public thinks otherwise. So I have ventured to
sweeten accompanying samples as far as possible to suit the demand, and
trust they will meet with the approbation of consumers.

Of the specimens here selected for exhibition, my title piece originally
appeared in the _Fortnightly Review_: 'Honey Dew' and 'The First Potter'
were contributions to _Longman's Magazine_: and all the rest found
friendly shelter between the familiar yellow covers of the good old
_Cornhill_. My thanks are due to the proprietors and editors of those
various periodicals for kind permission to reproduce them here.

G.A.

THE NOOK, DORKING:

_September_, 1889.

CONTENTS

PAGE

FALLING IN LOVE 1
RIGHT AND LEFT 18
EVOLUTION 31
STRICTLY INCOG. 50
SEVEN-YEAR SLEEPERS 72
A FOSSIL CONTINENT 88
A VERY OLD MASTER 106
BRITISH AND FOREIGN 123
THUNDERBOLTS 137
HONEY-DEW 159
THE MILK IN THE COCO-NUT 176
FOOD AND FEEDING 193
DE BANANA 216
GO TO THE ANT 233
BIG ANIMALS 251
FOSSIL FOOD 271
OGBURY BARROWS 287
FISH OUT OF WATER 302
THE FIRST POTTER 316
THE RECIPE FOR GENIUS 328
DESERT SANDS 341

FALLING IN LOVE

An ancient