The Caribou and the Wolves. 
twenty yards of Lira; but instead of moving any longer directly 
towards him, they broko into two lines, swept past on opposite 
sides of him, and then circling round, met each other in his rear 
His retreat was cut off! 
“ He now stood upon the ico with the fierce wolves forming a 
ring around him, whose diameter was not the six lengths of his 
gun, and every moment growing shorter and shorter. The pros- 
pect was appalling. It would have caused the stoutest heart to 
quad, and Lucien s was terrified. lie shouted at the top of his 
voice. He fired his rifle at tho nearest. The brute foil, but the 
others ahowed no symptoms of fear ; they only grew more furious. 
Lucien clubbed his gun— the lost resort in such coses— nnd laid 
around him with all his might; but he was in danger of slipping 
upon the ice, and his efforts were feeble. Once down he would 
never have risen again, for his fierce assailants would have 
fiPmng upon him like tigers. As it was, he felt but little hope. 
lie behoved himself lost. Tho teeth of the ferocious monsters 
gleamed under his eyes. He was growing weaker and weaker, 
yet still lie battled on, ond swept his gun around him with the 
energy of despair. ” 
What fiually happens our younger readers will be eager 
to nnd out tor themselves ; we shall only say that Capt. 
Heed is not tho man to leave the bold young hunter to be 
torn to pieces. But we promised another pictorial ex- 
tract. I here it is, and after giving it we shall scarcely 
need to commend the volume to our readers. The dog 
Marengo, has put up the trumpeter Swan, who gets out of 
shot before the “hunters” can aim. But he does not 
escape. 
. staining a height, of scvoral hundred yards, ho flow 
forward in a horizontal course, and followed tho direction of the 
, H,s . waa " 0 ^ regular, and his trumpet-note 
could be heard at intervals, as, with outstretched neck, lie glidod 
, Hq aeamed to feel the pleasant sensations 
'lmL l e ° - a i U , r . ofter an eaca P° from danger, nnd no 
Self 10 hX? fl' l T TTT Bllt in tlli8 fan °y !ia deceived 
f°i bim had ho risen a few hundreds yards 
J. ff! L ?J B0 La, J utte . red 118 Wif-gratlUations in a more subdued 
f0 , 1 lt . waa neord and answered, nnd that response was the 
twn nf t^o whito-headocl eagle. At the same instant 
in- 1 in f J 5 bzrda— -t-hoso ni [ready introducod-wore seen mount- 
dnnn K„i ? • T hoy dld not f, - v up verti cally, ns tho swan had 
thev'aaccn ZF't! CU ‘' VCS ’ wh , e< ? lin ^ an,i crossing each other as 
■eif the fl y Wflro f01 ' a P° int thafc would inter- 
course K ^ 1 16 8W T 8l ??J lld 110 kcep 011 > a l»w horizontal 
course. Ibis, however, he did not do. With nn eyo ns quick ns 
ieck upward W h fi tb n Q J - h ° W " 3 ‘S OQdod ) ; ’ a,ld etching his long 
had to E 5 Svf e> P ! u ' 3 p C ' an almoat vertical line. Hut lie 
of tho onS S P T,' 8 lo ? 1 ! and bonoa . while the largest 
wos rqShtTvo 0 ir a p 0bl ^~ witha8tnib r° adc >-eprcndofwr..g, 
IS soon apparem SML?° V f n - Tho result of this different 
mwif # eforo tho trumpeter had got two hundred 
bffir . 'S 
| 
So' oi? 1 Ct U S ° r Capa i ° fli e|'t, came whistling through 
mo am. Hut it was not allowed to dron dirnctTv t,-, 
t lm ii 11 T M im TC f, ‘ Uon 0,1 tl10 l,030m of f'o broad rivor and 
that the eagles did not wish, as it would hnvo gi ven them somo 
trouble to get tho honvy carcass ashore. As soon as tho mole— 
The Tbum peter Swan and the Bald Eaolb. 
quenco is, that works of pictorial art arc almost dead let- 
ters to the largest portion of the community. We stare at 
pictures, anil possibly even admire them for some meretri- 
cious or accidental quality, but read them— never. In 
tact, the very name which we apply to them, when they 
« 5“ !° 1 V h f. f ? r “ of engraving, is almost universally 
lllustiation, which clearly points them out ns merely ac- 
cessories to some other and written thesis. Not so the Ger- 
mans; their pictures are the book, and the letter-press is 
the illustration. The want of appreciation among ourselves 
is not very easily to be accounted for, except on Dogberry’s 
supposition that “reading and writing come by nature;” 
and so letter-press is the most easily understood, unless we 
suppose that, as a nation, we lack that modicum of imagi- 
nation which is necessary to render a picture a living and 
suggestive means of telling a story or imparting a truth, 
it is certainly a more vivid, and, one would imagine, a 
readier means of communication; and as books are multi- 
plying, and people are getting more and more lazy, and 
careless of reading them, a language which presents a 
greater amount of impression for a smaller degree of labour 
may become more generally adopted. 
And yet strangely enough, coupled with this ignorance, 
v lich can see nothing more in our illustration than what 
is set down, and accurately specified for it in the corres- 
ponding letter-press, is an arrogant assumption of taste 
and knowledge, which is either very laughable, or very 
contemptible— sometimes both. “I know what I like” 
says the rapt admirer of a roseate tea-tray, all haze and 
varnish and that’s enough.” “ It may not be what you 
call high art, says another of somo highly-projected 
monstrosity, “ but is so life-like and real, and it pleases 
me, and that s all I want.” Of parallel arrogance, until 
recently, was the self-appreciation of the drawing-room 
siuger, who encompassed the whole gamut in ascending a 
poor octave, and was satisfied that his style was perfection. 
Hut Ins day is done. Musical ignorance and pretence are 
Hying like the moon-eyed heralds of dismay,’’ before 
Jullien, HiUIali, and two Italian operas, but the school- 
master tor the eye is but just venturing abroad, and open- 
ing not very large establishments at Marlborough House 
and elsewhere. 
Such books, therefore, as the beautiful volume named 
at the head ot this notice, are works to be hailed with ap- 
probation by those who would open up a language hitherto 
supposed to be dead, but burning with a really brilliant 
light. And the life of the great reformer, Martin Luthen 
!S an excellent subject, because, so well known ns are most 
ot Ins acts, no very large amount of care would be required 
in reading the pictures, even unassisted by the letterpress 
illustrations. Phese pictures, which form a continuous 
story ot the life and acts of Luther, are engraved from de- 
signs by Gustav Kouig, and are thoroughly German iu 
their conception and treatment, bold, characteristic, and 
thoughtful, and quite freo from mysticism and diablerie. 
I his is as it should be, and in keeping with the subject. 
Luther was eminently a practical, working-day man, 
Whatsoever lumber of words that he never uttered, and 
dreams that ho never dreamt, may have been heaped upon 
nud raised over ins tomb at Wittenburg, cau never detract 
touching simplicity ! In the back-ground tho mother, cx 
hausted by the pains of maternity, crosses her hands ove 
her breast, in mute accord with the more active piety o 
the father, who is the prominent foreground figure, and ir 
an attitude of prayer, is presenting to God the child bul 
that instant born. The shrouded oandle, the two attendani 
peasant women, preparing the first bath, and the unruffled 
cot, speak with sufficient distinctness, of all makers of time 
and circumstance. 
Luther, now a monk, oppressed with an intolerable 
burden of imaginary sin, clinging frantically to the feet ol 
the image of Ins crucified Saviour, is a striking and bold 
design, undisturbed in its sublime tale by any accessories 
except a skull and a solitary instrument of personal 
punishment ; and the next tableau, where he almost as 
frantically appeals for help to an old monk, is equally 
touching and forcible, and the two pictures indicate in 
succession the strange mental struggle through which the 
bold monk had to pass, before ho was fit for the work 
imposed upon him. 
Two other tableaux, one in which lie denounces the 
iconoclasts, and the other, in which bo boldly throws 
himself among the peasant insurrectionists, are particularly 
worthy of notice, and if space allowed, many more might 
be singled out as characteristic specimens; but enough has 
been said to show the nature aud execution of the work, 
as far as the pictorial portion is concerned. The illustra- 
tions to the pictures are merely iinger-posts for the con-* 
venience of those who may have forgotten the acts of this 
world-known monk ; but there is appended a “ Sketch of 
the Rise and Progress of the Reformation in Germany,” 
translated — and very well translated— from the German of 
M. Gelzcr. 
It is a very difficult and delicate tiling, to write a history 
of an epoch, or a man about which or whom, all the world 
has resolved with the utmost unanimity, to quarrel help- 
lessly and hopelessly. Perhaps about no other historical 
personage can so extensive au array of different and oppo- 
site opinions be found, as have clashed around Luthor, 
and his reformation. Beginning very early in his career, 
the very extremes of his enemies seem to meet, for while 
Eck denounces him on one side, Munzer on the other, can 
find no better names for him, than the “carnal effeminate 
flesh at Wittenberg,” “ the prudish Babylonian woman,” 
“Arch heathen,” “Doctor liar,” “the YVittenberg pope,” 
“hypocritical flatterer of princes,” aud other amenities of 
a similar kind ; and this is uot because he reformed, bnt 
because he would not revolutionise. True it is that 
Doctor Martinus had plenty to say for himself in return, 
and some of his acts and much of his language, make one 
very much incline to the “legend” which ascribes the 
emigration of his father from Mocra to Eislebon, “to some 
act committed in tho heat of passion.” So that passionate 
himself, and the cause of much passion in others, it was no 
easy task (as was said) to steer even tolerably clear of all 
irritating considerations iu a sketch. of the lifo of this 
“ German firebrand.” This however to his praise M. 
Gelzer has contrived to do, and has produced a clear, 
well-arranged sketch, which adds value to a very hamlj 
some and very interesting volume. 
January 7,] 
attempt running bnck to the camp would be hazardous; tho 
wolves could overtake him before ho had got half-way, nnd bo 
felt certain that any eigne of fear on his part would be tho signal 
for the fierce brutes to assail him. 
“For somo momonls towns irresolute how to act. Ho lmd 
commenced loading his gun, but his fingers were numbed with 
the cold, and it was a good while before he could get the piece 
roady for a second tiro. Ho succeeded at length. IIo did not firo 
then, but resolved to keep tho charge for a more desperate crisis, 
(.ould he but reach tho camp there were trees near it, ond one of 
these lie might climb. This was his only hope, in case tho wolves 
attacked him, and ho know it was. Instead of turning and run- 
ning for tine point, lie began to bnck for it stealthily and with 
caution, keeping his front all tho while towards the wolves, and 
his eyes fixed upon them. He had not got many yards, when ho 
perceived to his horror, that the whole pack were in motion, nnd 
earning after him I It was a terrible sight, nnd Lucien seeing 
if? 1 • y rctrea, ' n o he only drew them on, stopped and hold bis 
rifle in a threatening nttitudo. The wolves were now within 
THE FIELD. 
£'? a3 i W< T- 111 * “> n.r-saw that his partner had struck the 
Lia d a i d i * 0 r tUia ? d , Inward flight, and poising himself on 
tKiM ! ' V ( aitcd 118 de ? c °nt. A single instant was snflleiont. 
Tho white object passed him still fluttering; but tho moment 
it was below lus level he shot after it likonn arrow, ami clutching 
scit srtrisvifed 
K ijite!.* Jul1 80u "' 1 o, " ,,)unceJ “» «*■> taj 
The Life of Martin Luther, in j fifty Pictures, from Designs 
by Gustav Konig. N. Cooke. 
In the education of that little family, the Senses, English 
people display a most unpardonable partiality. The “big 
brother,” Taste is pampered aud spoilt; Smell is cruelly 
provoked and ill used; Hearing has lately been botli edu- 
cated and gratified ; but, ns for Seeing, it is constantly 
indulged, but is seldom sent to school at all. The consc- 
grand char acteristic of the man. Made by the 
enough to"? 3 ° f hlS timea - times of difficult significance 
enough to have puzzled a mystic-Luther felt his wav 
tatfon 7 And wf?'*r° n \ e internftl fear but no external hcsT- 
“T; And whether burning the papal bull, and denounc- 
and accurfed a bulK “ Anti . christ ’” and itself aa “ this hellish 
character which’ T? i Bt , n i lUg t0 resist the rcvoIl »tioi' a ry 
nnon J • . Ka p rlstad t and Munzer had engrafted 
strong miiir/prl^m ref ? rmalion > be still stands out as tho 
practical man. 
nsanvoftVw*fl re bls birth,— affords as good an instance 
position^ Tn S!‘ Ve ’ thoughtful style of all these corn- 
want of * n rim print °' V a V ord ^ rom ai >other art, (alas, for 
want ot nomcc ature, what a perpetual svstem of bor- 
rowing and lending is all art criticism!) the^ ^bve-plav” of 
a 1 these designs is exceedingly good. The nicture^iust 
alluded to is simplicity itself, luid^ct wliatsSug {nd 
