Part 1

Transcriber’s Notes:

Text enclosed by underscores is in italics (italics), and text enclosed by equal signs is in bold (=bold=).

Additional Transcriber’s Notes are at the end.

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FROM AN EASY CHAIR

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BY THE SAME AUTHOR

EXTINCT ANIMALS

By SIR E. RAY LANKESTER, F.R.S. With a Portrait of the Author, and 218 other Illustrations. Demy 8vo. Second Edition, Price =7s. 6d.= net.

NATURE.--“We give the book a hearty welcome, feeling sure that its perusal will draw many young recruits to the army of naturalists, and many readers to its pages.”

THE KINGDOM OF MAN

By SIR E. RAY LANKESTER, F.R.S. With about 60 Illustrations. Demy 8vo. Second Edition. Price =3s. 6d.= net.

DAILY NEWS.--“Forms one of the most stimulating and suggestive books of recent times. We feel that we cannot praise it too highly.”

OUTLOOK.--“This fascinating and inexpensive book ... in which much knowledge is imparted in a manner that attracts.”

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FROM AN EASY CHAIR

BY SIR RAY LANKESTER, K.C.B., F.R.S.

“The world is so full of a number of things, I am sure we should all be as happy as kings.”

R. L. STEVENSON

LONDON

ARCHIBALD CONSTABLE & CO., LTD.

1909

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RICHARD CLAY AND SONS, LIMITED BREAD STREET HILL, E.C., AND BUNGAY, SUFFOLK.

Published October, 1908. Reprinted January, 1909.

PREFACE

This little book is a reproduction, with some emendations, of articles which appeared in the Daily Telegraph in the six months between the beginning of last October and the end of April. If it should meet with success, further collections of the same kind will be published from time to time.

E. R. L.