Crossword-Solution: ALCES 5 letters, 2 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 7

And of the theme--legitimate marriage contra common-law--what need be said except that he handled it in a manner most acceptable to the aesthetic and least offensive to the moral sense? L'Immortel is a satire springing from personal reasons; L'Evangeliste and Rose et Ninette--the latter on the divorce problem--may be classed as clever novels; but had Daudet never written more than 'Fromont et Risler', 'Tartarin sur les Alces', and 'Port Tarascon', these would keep him in lasting remembrance.

And of the theme--legitimate marriage contra common-law--what need be said except that he handled it in a manner most acceptable to the aesthetic and least offensive to the moral sense? L’Immortel is a satire springing from personal reasons; L’Evangeliste and Rose et Ninette--the latter on the divorce problem--may be classed as clever novels; but had Daudet never written more than ‘Fromont et Risler’, ‘Tartarin sur les Alces’, and ‘Port Tarascon’, these would keep him in lasting remembrance.

Having finished the examination of man as a treasury of restoratives, Salmon passes on to Alces, the Elk; Antilopus, the Antelope; and Asinus, the Ass.

The American form (to which the name moose is usually given) is sometimes separated from the European as _Alces americ[=a]nus_, but most naturalists find no specific difference between them.

Elk, Genus _Alces_.--Lateral metacarpals as in preceding; antlers (as in the following genera) present only in the male, arising at right angles to the median longitudinal line of the skull, and extending at first in the plane of the forehead, after which, when in their fullest development, they expand into a broad palmation margined with snags.