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of the pupils, and equally so with the solo singing of a young lady, 
whom we understood to be under the tuition of Mr. James Elliott, 
Miss Romer’s instructor, a man, in all respects, competent to the 
task of forming an accomplished singer, being not merely a tho- 
rough practician in his art, but, moreover, possessing a natural and 
cultivated taste in the sister arts of poetry and painting—valuable 
accessories, if not positive necessaries, to form a perfect singer ; for 
no one can rise into the highest station of any branch of the fine 
arts, who possesses not a close sympathy with the spirit of beauty 
under all its phases and appliances. } 
SKETCHES OF EUROPEAN ORNITHOLOGY. 
GOULD’s “BIRDS OF EUROPE.” 
SEVENTEENTH PART. 
Tues Sketches, first projected and actually “‘ commenced by our- 
selves,”* events of a private nature have, for the last two years, pre- 
vented us from continuing. For the Analysis of the first four Parts 
only of Mr. Gould’s incomparable work, are we, consequently, respon- 
sible. 
Deeply sensible of the great superiority of the articles which have 
subsequently appeared, under this borrowed title, in the Analyst and 
Naturalist, we should deem it an act of flagrant and indelible dis- 
honour to arrogate to ourselves the merit of other writers ; and hence 
has arisen the necessity of the present explanation. Still, having 
* This assertion will naturally excite surprize in those who have had the 
good fortune to peruse an article entitled “Sketches of European Ornitho- 
logy” published by Mr. Nevirte Woop in a late number of the Naturalist. 
They, however, who feel at all sceptical on the subject, may have their 
doubts removed by turning to pages 99 and 280 of the third volume of the 
Analyst. If this be not satisfactory, we refer them to page 196 of the Orni- 
thologist’s Text-book, a work professedly emanating from Mr. Neville Wood 
himself; J. ALSA vincere veris is our family-motto; a motto, unfortunately, 
but too applicable on the present occasion,—P. 
