The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction. Volume 12, No. 330, September 6, 1828

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Various. The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction. Volume 12, No. 330, September 6, 1828

WHY ARE NOT THE ENGLISH A MUSICAL PEOPLE?

GARDENS OF THE ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY, REGENT'S PARK

HERSCHEL'S TELESCOPE

THE KELPIE

A SCOTTISH LEGEND

SUGAR AND WATER CRITICISM

THE SKETCH BOOK

A DAY AT ST. CLOUD

RETROSPECTIVE GLEANINGS

ALFREDE AND MATYLDA

SPIRIT OF THE PUBLIC JOURNALS

FOX HUNTING

THE BLIND BEAUTY OF THE MOOR

(A Fragment.)

THE GATHERER

EPICURISM

FLY WATER

NO JOKE OR RIDDLE

WANTS A WIFE

ALPHABETICAL AGREEMENT

OBSTINACY AND PERSEVERANCE

IDOLATRY

ORIGIN OF THE WORD GALLIMATHIAS

SALLIE TO JOHN

GETTING A JOURNEY

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We are again in the Regents Park; but we must leave its architectural splendour for the present, and request our readers to accompany us towards the eastern verge of the Park, to the Gardens of the Zoological Society, established in 1826, and whose members now amount to eleven hundred! The grounds are daily filled with fashionable company, notwithstanding the great migrations which usually take place at this season of the year, and almost depopulate the western hemisphere of fashion. The gardens, independent of their zoological attractions, are a delightful promenade, being laid out with great taste, and the parterres boasting a beautiful display of flowers. The animals, too, are seen to much greater advantage than when shut up in a menagerie, and have the luxury of fresh air, instead of unwholesome respiration in a room or caravan.2

At page 413 of our last volume, the reader will find an abstract of the second anniversary of the Society, since which the Gardens in the Regent's Park have been opened for public inspection. We have accordingly availed ourselves of this privilege, and our draughtsman has been at some pains in the annexed sketch, together with the vignette portraits accompanying it. The "Bird's-Eye View" will be better explained by reference to the figures; thus,

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Here are three handsome crested cranes, four Indian spoonbills, together with three storks, three or four cockatoos, whose brilliant plumage outvies the gayest robe of art, and three curassos.

of which there are three fine specimens.

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