Excerpt from Solomon in All His Glory The graces and the tricks of acrobats. You seldom see the fly they are after, but their course is as clever as though the Wandering Rocks were threatening their tails in vain. Each of them after its flight returns to its perch to meditate, casting its wise, grandmotherly eyes down its slender beak and sitting so still that no insect could doubt its innocence. More beautiful are the grey wagtails - also ridiculously named, for it is their yellow that strikes the eye - that haunt the hedges of the stream, with tails that seem to pant with their heart-beats. This is one of the most beautiful of English birds - beautiful in colour and beautiful in flight. As it flies, its long tail gives it something of the grace of the magpie. Its tail both hampers it and adds to our admira tion. It is as though we were watching a beauti ful creature performing on the tight-rope. Its flight, as it climbs into the air and at each step folds its wings, is part of an exquisite ballet. 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.