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"This is a work which does credit to all the parties engaged in its production. The printing an elegant specimen of typography; the scientific descriptions are free from ambiguity, and high interesting; and the graphic representations of the animals, and vignette embellishments, engrave on wood by Messrs. Branston and Wright, from drawings by Mr. Harvey, for spirited action, fas fulness of character, as well in the general figure as in the various surfaces, good taste, and freedom of execution, have never been surpassed."-EXAMINER.

"This beautiful work we have frequently noticed as its parts appeared, and we need only say that it is altogether, in design and in execution, as interesting a publication as could well be imagined. The wood engravings are the perfection of art: the animals scientifically correct, yet spirited, and the tail-pieces admirable.In short, these volumes are an honour to the Zoological Society, and to all those who have been concerned in producing them in their handsome form."-LITERALT GAZETTE.

"Whoever has visited the Gardens, will, if he can afford it, do well to purchase these elegant volumes."-ECLECTIC REVIEW.

"There is a delightful work entitled The Gardens and Menagerie of the Zoological Society delineated. This book is published with the sanction of the Council, under the superintendence of the Secretary, and Vice-Secretary of the Society.' It is filled with exquisite engravings on wood, by Messrs. Branston and Wright, from highly finished drawings executed by Mr. Harvey, with the living originals in the gardens before him.

"Persons of taste, not having the fear of the Zoological Society before their eyes, mercilessly eovet the rich embellishments of The Gardens and Menagerie' for their ornamental albums Indeed, this work, which is in two handsome octavo volumes, with above two hundred and twenty delicious engravings, and which may be had for four-and-twenty shillings, by merely ordering it af any bookseller in the kingdom, is irresistible; and,-read it, readers, and tremble-many a copy has already fallen under the scissars of scrap-book makers.

"Place these volumes before a fair collector of prints,'-with flashing eyes she

Spreads the glittering forfex wide,'

and, in a moment, the Esquimaux dogs' and Macaws,' and other desirable creatures, are flut tered away from the superintendence of the society's secretary and vice-secretary,' and find themselves-without the sanction of the council'- within the lady's covers.

"The masterly engravings, with Whittingham's fine printing of this work, which is so enticing, and which is afforded at so low a price, obviously cost several thousand pounds."-HONE'S YEAR Воок.

"These beautiful volumes, we are told, were executed under the especial sanction of the Zoological Council,-the letter-press is, in fact, from the pen of the Vice-Secretary, and the publication may, therefore, be regarded as the Transactions' of the Society. Of course every Fellow has possessed himself of a copy; and if the favour of the public should prove at all in proportion to the patronage of the Gardens, the work must become eminently successful. And seldom has there been a book more worthy of reward than the present, which has been undertaken and prosecuted with a spirit highly praiseworthy in these peculiar times. The engravings of the animals are faithfully characteristic of the originals. You have no teazing doubts whether the animal before you goes about in a shaggy dreadnought, or a sleek mohair gambroon-in a plain suit of plush, or fustian-or a court-dress of velvet. There is no mistaking the Coatis. You need not wonder, as in some old plates, which is the buffalo, and which the bear,-or exclaim with Perring, What a shocking had beaver! There they are-in their habits as they live-shaggy, woolly, downy, bristly, or plumy.

"The Birds, which form the second volume now published, are-(without any Pun)-a beautiful and interesting series. The two volumes together, may be looked upon as the travelling caravans of the Society, for exhibiting their menagerie all over the country-and Mr. Bennet shows up the specimens with great science and a correct diction-so much so, indeed, that you resolve, like Puff, 'not to be too sure that he is a beef-eater. For our own parts, having a really high opinion of the merits of the collection, we cheerfully take our stand outside, and have great pleasure in being able to blow an honest trumpet, and advise the public to pay their money and walk in! walk in!"-ATHENEUM.

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