ENJOYMENTS OF THE BEARS. O5 
Garden; and, in point of fact, ‘ these our 
actors, as the immortal Shakspeare might 
have said, need not the assistance of a further 
‘company’ of Dogs, to cffer to spectators a 
natural, an innocent, and a tranquil drama— 
a drama of real life—such as, day by day, 
would delight the eyes, and speak to the 
hearts of thousands. Give the Bears, as 
has been given te the Monkeys, no more 
than room ;—give them a clear stage, and a 
fair stage, and their actions and manners 
would discover a variety as amusing as it 
would be pleasing and even instructive ;— 
a variety very distinguishable from that 
monotonous course of movement which, even 
such as it is, is so attractive to the multitude. 
Now, the Zoological Society, by accident, 
has fallen upon the discovery of a species of 
exhibition as lucrative to itself as it is es- 
timable for the public ; and there is no reason 
whatever why it should not pursue the route 
which chance has opened to it; nay, there is 
every reason, not more in the advancement of 
its own objects, than in a general regard for 
the pleasures and welfare of its fellow-citizens 
and countrymen, that it should yield itself to 
