A SELBORN/AN ANIMAL PAINTER. 
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When he was sixteen, Wolf was apprenticed to a lirm of 
lithographers at Coblenz, and here he stayed for three years. By 
the time he returned home he was an accomplished draughts- 
man. A little later we find him at Darmstadt, where he 
attracted the notice of the director of the museum, and from that 
time his career in life was fixed. 
In 1848 Wolf came to London, and at once began his work 
on Gray’s Gama of Birds. Ever since he has been fully 
employed, as the excellent bibliography prepared by Mr. 
Palmer shows, and the number of charming illustrations with 
which his Life is crowded abundantly manifests. The one 
w'hich by the courtesy of the publishers we are enabled to give 
