4024 The Zoologist — June, 1874. 



and it is very gratifying to find so large a proportion of the pictures 

 by artists whose names are not thus decorated. A charge of ex- 

 clusiveness cannot this year, with any show of fairness, be preferred 

 against the Council. 



Mr. Richard Ansdell, R.A., is represented by five pictures, 

 Nos. 186, 367, 520, 614 and 620; and Mr. Sidney Cooper, R.A., 

 by four pictures, Nos. 209, 419, 474 and 713; there is nothing in 

 these pictures to distinguish them from the previous performances 

 of those well-known and favourite artists, who seem to have attained 

 a position of that high respectability in English art that is not 

 amenable to any criticism of mine. 



I then come to Briton Riviere, a name undecorated by letters ; 

 it seems French, but I cannot state that its owner is so; he 

 certainly rejoices in a very English address — 16, Addison-road, 

 Kensingtbn. Perhaps the announcement may induce some very 

 English readers to regard him with unprejudiced eyes. Mr. Riviere 

 has two pictures, Nos. 260 and 527. The first is called " Apollo," 

 and it may be incidentally remarked that the painter is in general 

 particularly happy in describing his pictures by a single word, as 

 Circe, Daniel, Argus, Apollo. Apollo is introduced to us with this 

 quotation, translated from Euripedes : — 



" Apollo's self, 

 Deigned to become a shepherd in thiuc halls, 

 And tune bis lays along the woodland slopes. 

 Whereat entranced the spotted lynxes came 

 To mingle with thy flocks; from Othrys glen 

 Trooped tawny lions ; e'en the dappled fawn 

 Forth from the shelter of her pine- wood haunts, 

 Tripped to the music of the Sun God's lyre." 



The usual version of this story inherited by schoolboys, through 

 the instrumentality of L'Empriere, may briefly be stated thus: — 

 Jupiter slew ^sculapius, a celebrated physician of those days, wilh 

 a thunderbolt forged by Cyclops, a gentleman possessing but a 

 single eye, and that situated in the middle of his forehead. Apollo 

 was so angry at this that in turn he killed Cyclops, and for this 

 was sent lo tend the flocks of Admelus, king of Tliessaly, and 

 whilst thus employed played on his sistrum so skilfully, as a sort 

 of solace in his banishment, that the wild beasts gathered round 

 him to enjoy the delightful music. An idea will intrude itself that 

 this great painter may have rather combined and confused two 



