274 Smith's Elysium of Animals. 



some engraved diagrams, and a few woodcuts. 1835. 

 2s. 6d. 



The treatises on subjects of natural history are three: two 

 of them, "Treatises on the Natural History of the Pilchard, 

 with particular Reference to the Fisheries of Cornwall ; " the 

 other, a " Meteorological Register kept at Ashfield, near Fal- 

 mouth, for the first Six Months of 1835." The two treatises 

 on the pilchard are prize ones : one of them is by J. Couch, 

 Esq. : it occupies 28 pages, and is followed by remarks on 

 some other species of fishes, and by notes by one of the 

 judges. The other treatise is by Mr. John Chester, and occu- 

 pies 6 pages. Lovell Squire, jun., is the author of the meteo- 

 rological register : it is an elaborate one. 



Smith, Egerton : The Elysium of Animals : a Dream. 8vo, 

 105 pages, and two engravings. London and Liverpool, 

 1836. 3s. 



" The heart is hard 



. that is not pleased 

 With sight of animals enjoying life, 

 Nor feels their happiness augment his own. 



. A thousand images of bliss, 

 With which kind Nature graces every scene, 

 Impart to the benevolent, who wish 

 All that are capable of pleasure pleased, 

 A far superior happiness to theirs, 

 The comfort of a reasonable joy." 



Cowper's Task, bookvi. 



Every naturalist, whose heart is in sympathy with these 

 opinions, would read with interest Egerton Smith's Elysium 

 of Animals, whose object in the production of it has been "to 

 promote the good cause so feelingly and so effectively advo- 

 cated by the benevolent practical Christians to whom the pub- 

 lic is indebted for that excellent work The Voice of Humanity." 



A part of the plot of The Elysium of Animals is a supposing 

 as follows: — Animals of the earth, whose life has terminated 

 therein, are now in a state of elysium in a certain island, upon 

 which a ballooner, who had left the earth and become wrecked, 

 alights. This event induces a convocation of the animals, and 

 an arraignment of the man in relation to this question, " Is man 

 deserving of mercy from those animals which have been sub- 

 jected to his domination during their earthly pilgrimage ?" The 

 kinds of animals that give evidence on the question are, the 

 horse, the bull, the bear, the cock, the monkey, the turnspit- 

 dog, the bull- dog, the ass, the cat, and the elephant ; and their 

 evidence is mainly against man, but with some exception on 

 the part of the dog and horse. It is desirable not to pursue 



