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romping in this canine manner, to the intense delectation of all 

 juvenile visitors. 1 think Mr. Hardy might with advantage have 

 borrowed Mr. Ward's title as well as his idea. Two lions engaged 

 in this manner for their own satisfaction would doubtless afford a 

 terrible and grand spectacle. The only spectator Mr. Hardy has 

 introduced is a lioness, who seems looking on with all the sangfroid 

 of a fashionable lady at similar combats in a Roman amphi- 

 theatre. 



Mr. Fisher has a large canvas covered with donkeys and geese, 

 which he calls The Intrusion (No. 34). The donkeys exhibit the 

 very essense of stolid indifference ; the geese, on the other hand, 

 are in a state of rabid and uncontrollable panic ; what antecedents 

 have conspired to induce this state of things does not appear; but 

 the violence of the birds is well contrasted with the quietude of the 

 beasts, and if that was the painter's object he has succeeded; but 

 as the donkeys evidently stood for their portraits and the geese 

 Jlew for theirs, it follows that the donkeys are the better painted. 

 Mr. Fisher in his brief view of flying geese does not seem to have 

 acquired a very correct idea of their appearance. 



Mr. Sidney Cooper's Monarch of the Meadows (No. 68) is an 

 improvement of his familiar monotonous style. The monarch is a 

 huge bull apparently standing on an invisible footstool behind a 

 cow and calf which are lying down. 



In Mr. G. D. Leslie's painting called The Fountain, I would 

 invite attention to the magpie : few people know what a beautiful 

 bird the magpie is; they consider it an objectionable, harsh, noisy, 

 mischievous, black and white fellow, with a longish tail. Mr. Leslie 

 has painted hira in his true colours, and those colours are very 

 handsome. 



That very clever painter Mr. Orchardson has two zoological 

 pictures of considerable merit : one of them, intituled The Pro- 

 tector (No. 194), represents a large dog in company with a pleasant- 

 looking lady in a garden; the lady seems to have no need of such 

 a protector; but the dog is made to indicate the approach of a 

 strange, if not unwelcome, footstep : the other picture, Oscar and 

 Bain (No. 208), seems to be popular, but I failed to discover its 

 attraction. 



Sir Edwin Landseer is again in dreamland, but his dreams are 

 the dreams of genius : he has two paintings. Tracker (No. 255) and 

 Sketch of Her Majesty the Queen (No. 256), proclaim the painter 



