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REVIEW — THE ELYSIUM OF ANIMALS. 
wards he sickened, and died of acute farcy. Every practitioner 
will regret this termination of a very interesting case; and our 
faith in the ultimate effect of paracentesis in the horse will be 
somewhat weakened; but still, I think, we shall be disposed to 
have recourse to it oftener than we have done. 
Y. 
“ Quid sit pulchrum, quid turpe, quid utile, quid non.- — H or. 
The Elysium 0/ Animals. 
The elegant style, the wit, humour, and incidents of this 
little work, very happily blended with a great deal of instruction, 
render it by no means an unacceptable present on the table of a 
reviewer, were it merely to drive away the ennui occasioned by 
the constrained perusal of dull and prosing works. The only 
disappointment, mingled with a little regret, which the reader is 
likely to experience, is when he is finishing the last page. In 
fact, there are few readers who will not be led, like ourselves, to 
peruse it, at least some parts of it, again and again. This re- 
mark applies more particularly to the brilliant and imposing de- 
scription of the aeronautic voyage in a balloon to this terra in- 
cognita , which, perhaps, has never been surpassed. 
The Elysium of Animals is represented as a dream. The 
author ascends in a balloon, and is wafted, days and nights, 
through unknown aerial regions, until, at length, he descends on 
the Elysium of Animals. “ The scenery was such as nature 
brings together in her sublimest mood : sounding cataracts ; hills 
which rear ther scathed heads to the sky ; lakes that, winding 
up the shadowy valleys, lead, at every turn, to more romantic 
recesses ; rocks which catch the clouds of heaven : all the wild- 
ness of Salvator Rosa here ; and there the fairy scenes of Claude.” 
Here “ beasts and birds of every kind were seen repairing to the 
amphitheatre, where they soon assembled in countless myriads, 
forming the most awful convocation.” The intruder is then 
brought before this extraordinary and numerous assembly, and 
addressed by their president, the Elephant, from whose speech 
we give the following extract: — 
“ Audacious descendant of Adam 1 how and wherefore hast 
thou dared to pollute with thy unwelcome and odious presence 
