29 AUGUST 1863, Page 3

Sir E. Landseer has finished his model in clay for

the lions to be erected at the base of the Nelson Column. He has spent a most exorbitant timo on the work, but he has succeeded, and the lion will add to his reputation that of being a most accomplished sculptor. He has, we are happy to hear, thrown overboard English traditions, adhered to naturalism, and made his lion a lion instead of that compound of a zebra, a lion, and some mythical beast which takes its place in the English coat of arms. We suppose grown meg will be grey- headed before the lions are up, but that is better than the reproduction of models devised when artists believed a unicorn a possibility, and heralds thought that griffins had once been drawn from the life.