PREFACE 
hopes that both these, and the unpublished chapters 
which are now added, present a fair picture of the 
many-sided present, as well as some glimpses of the 
past, of the famous menagerie in Regent’s Park. 
For the insertion of animal drawings by Japanese 
artists, in addition to Mr. Gambier Bolton’s photo- 
graphs, the writer must plead the conviction, which 
he has long maintained, that their truth to Nature is 
of its kind unrivalled. 
C. J. Cornish. 
Orford House , Chiswick Mall , 
September 28, 1894. 
