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said all that there is to say in the science of form- 

 inof out-door menageries. 



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The subway transports the citizen from the 

 crowded hives of the Bowery to a very passable 

 imitation of virgin nature — whatever virgin nature 

 may mean — as it was in the age that preceded the 

 extermination of the wild bison. A herd of those 

 magnificent beasts engages the eye as soon as the 

 gates are passed. They are seen grazing on a 

 wild range. A little further on, the visitor comes 

 within gunshot of a splendid ibex at gaze on the 

 brow of a hill, or on a family of bears playing 

 among trunks and boulders. The secret of Bronx 

 lies in the cunning with which its architects have 

 juggled with perspective and conjured with middle 

 distance, editing wild nature to suit the require- 

 ments of captive animals in an open-air home, 

 editing it moreover so cautiously that only the 

 practical eye can tell the raw material from the 

 work of man. Here, two, are the little Rocky 

 Mountain goats, which Mr Hornaday himself 

 brougfht back from their mountain homes, and 

 about the tracking of which he has recently pub- 

 lished a very enjoyable book.^ 



It is clear — and we may own as much without 

 any disparagement of those who have worked at 

 home under different conditions — that those who 

 have at Bronx produced illusions agreeable at once 

 to the beasts and to those who watch them have owed 

 no allegiance to Old World ideals of zoological 

 architecture. For the realisation of their dreams 

 these fortunate enthusiasts were allotted a vast 



' Catnp Fires ut the Canadian Rockies. By W. T. Hornaday. 

 lUust., with Photographs. London : T, Werner Laurie, 1906. 



