ORPHEUS AT THE ZOO. 
THE FIRST VISIT. 
In making trial, with the aid of a skilled musician, 
of the effect of sweet sounds on animal ears, we 
knew that there was good reason to doubt whether 
Orpheus himself might not fail to charm within the 
precincts of the Zoo. For if, on the one hand, the 
creatures so far share the blessings of the golden 
age that they entertain a liking rather than a fear of 
man, and have no dread of a possible enemy behind 
the mask of music, many of them are no strangers 
to such forms of it as are produced by the harmony 
of a band which plays there weekly in summer 
evenings. To those creatures which have lived for 
years in that part of the Gardens near the band-stand, 
the sound of music is no new thing ; and it was pos- 
sible that they might be as indifferent to its strains 
as an organ-grinder’s monkey to the music of the 
street. On the other hand, there must be many 
to which, either from living at a distance from the 
musical centre of the band-stand, or in separate 
