The Sun.
London, England, 1850-11-14 00:00:00

INVITATION TO THE ZOOLOGICAL GARDEN'S.

(Bye Gentleman with a Saghtlmpeannent in his Speech.)
I have found out a gig-gig-gift for my tuf-fuf—fair,
I have found is here the ruttle-snakes bub-bub—breed.
Won't you c-c-c-come, and I'll show you the Cub-bub—
b-ar,
And the lions and tit-tit--tigers at fuf-faf-fuf—feed.

know where the c-c-c•co—cockatoo's song
Makes mum-mum•wum—melody through the sweet
vale;

Where the m—monkeys gig-gig—grin all the day long,
Or gracefully awing by the tit-tit-tit-tit—tail.
You shall pip-pip—play, dear, some did-did—delicate
joke,
With the bub-bub—bear on the tit-tit—top of his pip-
pip-pip—pale;
But observe, 'cis for-for for—bidden to pip-pip—poke
At tLe hub-nub—b.-16r with your pip-pip—pink pip.
pip. pip-pip—parasol.
You shall see the huge elephant pip-pip-pip—play;
You shall gig-gig-gaze on the stet-tit—a(ely racoon,
And the❑ din-did—dear together we'll stray,
To the cage of the bub-bub--blue fuf ,fut-fac'd ba b-bab-
bah—toon.

You wish'd (I r-r-r—remember it well,
And I I-1-1 lov'd you the m•m-more for the wish)
To witnet,s the bub-bub•bub—beautiful pip-pip—pel-
-lean swallow the 1-11ive 1.1-1-little tuf-tut—tish.
Then c.c-come, did-did-dearest, n-n-n-never say " nun-
nun-nun-nun—nay;"
I'll tit- tit-treat you. my love, to a" bub-bub-bub—buss,"
'Tis but thrup pip-pip pip—pence a pip-pip—piece all
the nay,
To see the hip-pip-pip—(l beg your pEadon)
To see the hip pip-m-pip—(ahem!)
The bip-pip pip pip—pip- pop-pop-pop—(l mean)
The hi p-po• po-po—(dear me, love, you know)
The hippo-pot-pot-pot—('pun my word I'm quite
ashamed of myself.)
The hip-pip-pop—the liip-po pot.
To see the Hippop—potamus.
The last line of the last verse is surely the extension
of a ludicrous conceit to the uttermost stretch of the
ridiculous. liine's sketch of the dromedary we take
to be as clever as it is laughable. " Britannia Pawn-
ing her Trident" is also capital. Such are the prin-
cipal merits of the new issue of the Comic Almanack.

FINE ARTS.
THE ART JOURNAL.
An important article opens the number of the Art
Journal for November, the intelligent and enterpris-
ing editor having just adventured upon a continental
tour for purposes connected with his publication and
with next year's Industrial Exhibition : and in this
introductory paper he recounts to us very pleasantly
the first results of his own personal observations. The
gist of the whole editorial contribution is to explain
the preparations already making in Germany for the
propostd, or we should rather say, approaching Exhi-
bition. His remarks, we doubt not, will be perused
with a very general interest, and will go far to con-
firm the majority in their well-founded confidence in
the happy issue of the whole enterprise. Prominent
among the illustrations to the p,riodical under notice,
are a fine copy by Sharpe, from the original painting
of Sir David Wilkie's " Peep u'Day Boy's Cabin,"
and a charming plate taken by Carter from R. Wil-
son's 'picture of " Hadrian's Vida," both in the Ver-
non Gallery. Added to these is a very exquisite bust
of Mademoiselle ..1", nny Lind, copied by Roffe, from
the original by Durham. A woodcut likeness of George
Harvey, and another of W. J. Muller, are
likewise given, accompanied by biographical notices
of those distinguished artists. For November, among
the 'Passages from the Poets," Goldsmith suggests
one subject, and Milton the other—one sketch repre-
senting a passage from "L'Allegro," and the other
a fragment from the " Traveller." A profusion of
other embellishments and literary contributions add
to the attractions of the current number of the Art
Journal, which is .xcellent.

KNIGHT'S PICTORIAL SHAESPERE.
Parts I. and 11

An admirable reprint from the bulkier edition,
edited by Mr. Charles Knight, has just been com-
menced—giving to the subscribers in each separate
Part a clear, complete, and beautiful copy of one or
Other of the incomparable dramas of Shaks-
pere. Typographically in every. respect the
specimens before us are exquisite—the type
i
being clear, and not, as ? too frequently
the case, split into double columns, after the manner
immemorially employed in printing the Bible. In-
stead of this the lines go clear across the page, and
being composed in large and sharply-drfined type,
the reading of the text is more than ever a luxury.
A few illustrative embellishments are given in the
supplementary notes, and with introductory remarks,
and a fanciful frontispiece to each comedy or tragedy,
the edition comes before us in an admirable manner.
Part 11. contains the whole of the Comedy of Errors.