From the June 16, 1934, issue

GROWTHS OF FANCY

Romancers with a modicum of training in science and much more than a modicum of imagination have for many years made a favorite theme of the situation where insects, or spiders, or other “little monsters of the world of grass” have suddenly grown to human or superhuman size, bringing up with them, correspondingly magnified, the strength, the appetite, the fierceness, the other qualities that so impress us when we see them “in the little.”