THE PAPYRO - MUSEUM.
This is one of the prettiest and most amusing displays of ingenuity • and perseverance that we have ever seen. It consists of more that- eighty different groups and figures, composing familiar scenes, hods in and out of doors,—such as a cottager's family-; gipsy encampment ; labourers at work in the fields; a gentleman's family at breakfast; another party assembled to take tea in an arbour ; ladies tanking pur- chases in a shop ; others at needle-work, at chess, &e..; servants emr ployed in household duties ; mid numerous other groups and single figures. The little figures are about a fore-finger high, and they are entirely made from paper. The various dresses are imitated with the nicest exactness, especially those of the females and the rus,ties ; the gentlemen's coats seem to have puzzled the fair (for they are the work of two ladies) modellers ; but in imitating the fashionable dresses of. the ladies, they are, as may be supposed, quite an fait. The most striking merit of these clever little models, is that the general character. the appropriate attitude and air, and almost the expression of the va- rious figures, is preserved with singular spirit and fidelity ; some of the groups are quite dramatic in effect, and describe some incident. In the different trades, &c. the various artieles for sale and implements of la:. boar are minutely imitated, and will bear examination. The natural- ness and verisimilitude of the groups, give a pictorial value to them, as the truth of character does a moral interest.
The Misses MOORET, of Hampshire; are the two ladies who hate produced these exquisite and tasteful ingenuities ; which are the fruits of four years' labour in the cause of charity. The profits of the. exhia bition and the ultimate sale will be devoted to the benefit of a benevo- lent institution established at Southampton, under the patronage of the Queen, for aiding the exertions of respectable persons of the upper ranks of society, who are reduced in circumstances, and enabling theM to maintainaheMselves in comparative comfort by the mde of the produce of their own industry.
Those who have need to avail themselves of the advantages of this institution, have a beautiful example of perseverance afforded them. The visitors to the exhibition will have the twofold satisfaction of en- joying an hour's pleasing entertainment, and of contributing to an ex.. cellent charity. The artist may derive many useful hints from the study of these miniature models; and every one will be gratified; but the little holyday-visitors especially will be delighted with the sight of the Lilliputian world of real life. .
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