The Express.
London, England, 1856-05-07 00:00:00

THE GREAT GLOBE.

I. noticing solos little while since this novel nadir-
fakir. g, we ineatioaed incidentally the very perceptible grow.
log vitality of the iastitatioe, sad saproseta4 the belief that the
Great Gl eh. was destiaed to play ea lespoetaatpart la Intent
iag the sphere of public lastraetioo. The theory most effec
tually advocated by the latelligoot ord. etor of this same
of popular education Is that tbe eye, es well as tha star sad
other orgasm of lease, mast be brought to bear is the pro-
em of mental issuing ; sad very great progress bas rr
wetly beta made Is this mode, of tearking within the
precinc3 of the Loicostas-aqaaro done. It is sot easy ti
imagine a mete insinuative or pleastat mode of passing a
spire half-hoar thaa that which the diorainie oar from
Els& wall to !Walden and back again to England Word%
whoa forty Ilse pictures Oa a largo scale) of [moss sides
aid mast plctararquo teener, par before the spectator, the
tamest of the pictured seems being 'shouted by the delivery
of were wee siert measate of the more importast incidents
ecesa•eted with the origiaal subject. As Inhibition more cal-
culated to stimulate the spirit of travel we witaseeed ;
sad we make no doubt but that many prices captivated by
the proairieg sitar. of the mimic intim will b. la-
dosed to egivert it into is aticomplished feet. The groat
rasj .rity of the picture. are by Mr. Charles Marshall, sad
are, w.th very few empties; extremely swell ezucatod. la
che saciesiag sitting, whaa more than half the jimmy
wee gone through, we noticed but oho failure amongst theme
pictorial illastratioa•—tbat of Bone, pained by soother
sad a fresigu baud. Natty of the subj eta, dist cf Vesicle
is particular, are deserving of the highest praise. W. do
sot ressesaber to have sea the silent, sea-borne city so well
no/assault! is °etym. The poetical grandeur of the 66i'
pies' swag bas beea caught by lb' artist, sad laprososs
lora upon the spectator, be whose mid the oratissest,
Vasegis, Yawata chi nen ti Tede al ace ti pro& I" bo-
soms for the moment absolutely realised. Although we
have tosobed ape. the foregoing subjeot, oar isteutioa at
protest in soticieg this edueatiosal lostit ut ion is to draw pub-
Be attention t th• ample opportaaity whisk it sow Words
for stsitylog a very Is' log and mach ignored breath of
=the. 100. Oa either side of the e rev's, ambulatory
eurroeudtag the taper compertmett of the totaada are sr-
looped, simply sad to group., figures, lite-sier, modelled la
war, Illastretays of the rues iobabitieg the regions which
nigh from Bulgaria to U. tonna.. of India. Thus figures,
the eoustoosasee of which are modelled with artists ease
and with a view to the true orprissaira of race, it. trilogies
three sad tear kindred is number, and wear reel ecstasies.
Tbey ere eirereover so deposed a to elemp,ify the ceseapa,
time sad habits p teul'ar to the people whom lacy personify.
Na..,... 'IONS s f society, f• oin the sleet exalted to the
auslotr, ere TOpfeellln-d. The somber, beauty, sad east-
liens of th se figures 'zeta surprise in the beholder; sea'
is it leis satistart ,ry to re 11, et up m the yetis.; of ideas sag-
petted, aid solid isle reatioh caoveyed, through ea levet-
tion of th• • larneaes salted= of elaborately lobbed eMpies.
The doused bundle' la lasle et. r pure study, we Oka,
uarivaled, for the smogs% of 'shuttle sad earteable fal r-
escues which is to be obtained at a swill cost of tine sad
'nosey.