• Landseer's Animals, No. IV.
The subjects in this number .consist of the Gazelle, that beautiful ani• mal whose name is as poetical as its form is symmetrical, and whose eyes are Arab similes for those of the loveliest of the fair sex ; the Lion Tiger Cubs, a cross breed of lion and tigress—the mongrels resembling the mother in form and skin ; the Calmuc or little Russian Horse, a whits shaggy Shetland.look ing animal; and a full.grown Asiatic Elephant, which appears to be a portrait of the late Cluzny. The plates are all excellent, and maintain the high character of the former parts of the work. But we wish Mr. LANDSEER would unmonkeyfy his pencil: his men are sure to possess, even in figure some monkey characteristics. Surely he must at last be obliged to exclaim, with Sir JOSEPH BANKES, when he discovered fleas were not of the nature of lobsters- " Men are not monkeys"—
Here we may stop, leaving out the denunciating exclamation.
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