deed, on the conductors of this great engine. For "Presse" and "Epoque," and among the younger the abuse of their power they must answer, sooner and more unprincipled journals, but an honest, or later, at the bar of public opinion. able, and learned critic, in every first-rate journal The press of France, unlike the press of Eng-in Paris, will soon obtain, whatever Madame Emile land, is distinguished by a strong esprit de corps. Girardin, in her "Ecole de Journalistes," may They are a formidable body, not so much because say to the contrary notwithstanding, the complete they are men of undoubted ability and information mastery. though these qualities are not without their influence as because they are a compact and serrid body, and feel that a stain cast upon a brother of the craft, is a wound inflicted on the whole corps. Their union is their weapon and their strength, and by it they vanquish all opposition, and rise to 'pride of place and power." The bitterest and the severest things that ever have been said against French journalists have been said by this lady and her then friend and ally, but now bitter enemy, Granier de Cassagnac. Both were then, (1840,) as they are now, of the school of the broad-sheet," but they spared not their common mother, but laid bare her faults without charity, without filial tenderness, without shame as without regret. Yet, in the whole circle of the French press there were not two persons who ought to have been more cautious and circumspect and chary of giving offence to the family of journalists than these self-same Girardins and No pampered proprietor, the spoiled child of blind Fortune, would attempt to ride the high horse with men of this stamp; for Paris is the limbo of proprietors, and the heaven of editors, contributors, and public writers. England, on the contrary, is the paradise of proprietors, and the inferno of editors and writers. The press in Eng-Cassagnacs. Out of the reach of danger, (as they land has made the fortune of many of its proprietors, and sent many of its contributors to the rules of the bench or to the prison of the fleet. The press in France has made the fortune of its best contributors, and ruined, in a pecuniary sense, the proprietors. Coste and Bethune have made the fortunes of hundreds of literary men, but have lost their own. Till there is more union, more esprit de corps, and a kindlier and a better spirit amongst literary men in England, proprietors must continue to have the upper hand, to assume the airs of grand seigneurs, and occasionally to maltreat writers and contributors. There are in France, as in England, various classes of persons, and of different degrees of merit and intellect, connected with the public press. Some there are, dull and heavy, who would fain soar into the higher regions; but the public soon whispers in the ear of these mistaken men, if it has not been previously hinted by the rédacteur en chef: supposed,) they were bold; out of the reach of shame, they were confident. But they reckoned without their host, for Jules Janin, to his eternal honor be it said, stepped forward in defence of the press, and in one of the neatest pieces of polished sarcasm that even the language of Voltaire can boast, told this lady, with scalding yet polite bitterness, the revolting truth. There are now in Paris, as in the time of Mercier, a species of half authors, of quarter authors, of literary métis, and quarterons, who disembogue their small verses, or venom, their stupid prose, or their colorless criticism, into obscure or small journals, and who give themselves, in consequence, the title of men of letters. These creatures are like some of the same species at home, all pretension from head to foot, and for no other reason, that anybody knows, but because of their unmistakeable nullity. They are always declaiming against an arrogant mediocrity, and they are themselves at once arrogant and mediocre. Many of them, like the ex-journeyman printer, Balzac, make a parade of their birth, often more natural, yet less equivocal, than their talents. To hear them as they enter a drawing room, with selfsatisfied air repeat their names with a sounding ob-flower of earliest chivalry, and descended in line DE before them, one would think they were of the direct from the first Christian baron, or of that dred with Noah and the Virgin Mary. To befamous house of the De Lévis, which claimed kinlieve these men of pure "blue blood," made of "the porcelain of earth's best clay;" they are indifferent to money, and don't write for it. But if they said their lucubrations did not sell for money, they would be nearer the truth. "Tu n'as point d'aile et tu veux voler! rampe.' Others there are, (to use the words of Voltaire, in the same poem :*) "Malin, gourmand, saltimbanque indocile." But these soon find their level, and sink into scurity, or are ignominiously dismissed. Some there are, like the Abbé Trublet, dull dogs, mere delvers, who go on and on, compiling and compiling, and supply their want of mother wit by the trover and conversion" of the wits of others. "L'abbé Trublet alors avait la rage There is no capital on earth where good newspaper writing is better paid than in Paris, and no capital where better newspaper writing is produced, if there, indeed, be any capital where so good is fabricated. The leading articles of the leading daily journals of London, such as the trou-"Times," the "Chronicle," and the "Daily D'être à Paris un petit personnage Au peu d'esprit que le bon homme avait, L'esprit d'autrui par supplément servait. Il entassait adage sur adage; Il compilait, compilait, compilait, On le voyait sans cesse ecrire, ecrire, Ce qu'il avait jadis entendu dire." But these "piocheurs," the Trublets and bles of our epoch, are not valued more than our intrepid penny-a-liners, and give place to sharper practitioners, who have learned: *In the family of the De Lévis there is a picture of the deluge, with one of the race holding up his hand, in which is contained a roll, whereon is inscribed, " Papiers de la Maison de Lévis." In the family gallery there is also another picture of one of the members of the house meeting the Virgin. The female De Lévis (for it was a religieuse) is proceeding to uncover her head, when there is written, as proceeding from the mouth of the Virgin, these words: Couvrez vous, ma très chere et sainte cousine, car je sais bien le respect que je vous dois." SCRATCHES AT NATURE WITH A FREE GUIL- THE AMERICAN EAGLE. News," are written with great strength, vigor, likely to be found in the inverse ratio of its exand boldness of tone, and occasional felicity of ex- tension. pression, but being, for the most part, composed on the spur of the moment, they bear about them, occasionally, marks of haste, and incorrectness, and inelegance, impossible to avoid under the circumstances. The French leaders in the "Débats" and the "Constitutionnel," are written more carefully, and in a more chaste and classic style. The writers in French papers have sometimes twentyfour hours, sometimes forty-eight hours, and often a week, to prune, to elaborate and polish, and they are therefore in a condition to profit by the advice of Despraux. "Vingt fois sur le métier remettez votre ouvrage; The wonder, therefore, is, not that the French editors write so well, but that the English writers, compelled to labor "currente calamo," produce so frequently articles of first-rate excellence, whether as regards subject, composition, arrangement, or disposition of the parts. It is the common practice in London to lay the proof of the first part of a leader on the table of the writer before the last slip of MS. is out of the writer's hands; yet some articles written in this breathless haste are as fine productions as ever issued from the press. The bitterest calumnies have been heaped upon journalists and newspaper writers in France. We have admitted that they are not faultless, but speaking generally, we say without hesitancy, that they have shown themselves the enemies of abuses, and the firm friends, sustainers, and protectors of public liberty; that notwithstanding the calumnies of the worthless, the fears of the timid, and the frowns of the powerful, the French press has generally asserted the indefeasible right of their countrymen to equal and impartial government, to equality before the law, to the free expression of opinion, and that perfect religious toleration, or rather freedom, inconsistent with a dominant sect, or a dominant priesthood, or a dominant race of any kind. The author of a recent work, who has had excellent opportunities of knowing the state of public opinion in France, not merely from his intimate acquaintance with the monarch, but with eminent men of all parties, and who is well informed in French history and literature, remarks, that the press in France had vast influence on public opinion, from the year 1825 to the Revolution of 1830. Had Mr. Mackinnon ex (Aquila Repudiatrix, LINN. Aigle Coquin, Burr.) THIS unclean bird of the ancients, though classed ities rather to resemble the vulture tribe. It must among the eagles, seems in its aspect and peculiarnot, however, be confounded with the "King Vulture" of Bewick, as it is a republican bird. It is distinguished from all others by being curiously marked with stripes and stars. Its flight resembles that of the Kite. Its voracity is something tremendous; it preys chiefly on the Oregon racoon, the Texas opossum, and the green snake of California; but it is also extremely fatal to the large species of goose called the creditor, (Anser Extraordinarius, LINN.; Joli Marin, BUFF.,) which it decoys into accompanying it to its own haunts by an affectation of honest friendship, apparently finding means to persuade the foolish bird that more ample supplies and thorough security will be found then at once despatched by its ruthless betrayer. there: the unfortunate goose, thus entrapped, is It is one peculiarity of this eagle, that he invariably performs the operation of plucking his victim which he does as neatly as the most accomplished cook. This process has been admirably late Rev. Sydney Smith, who was an eye-witness described by that excellent natural historian, the of the capture and plucking of several creditor geese by the American eagle, in the manner explained, somewhere in the State of Pennsylvania. which it will seize with evident gusto. A singular The eagle is also partial to the flesh of negroes, antipathy is evinced by this bird to that noble animal the British lion, (Leo Verus Caruleus, LINN.; Lion Bonhomme, BUFF.,) whom, in spite of his strength and courage, it even contrives occasionally to dislodge from his own hunting-grounds, in Oregon, and elsewhere. This is performed by a number of the eagles building their unpleasant nests in his neighborhood, by which the lion is gradually driven further and further off, till at length he finds himself deprived of the whole of his accustomed haunt, merely by this "masterly inactivity" on the part of his inferior opponent. American naturalists affirm that the eagle is constantly seen to "whip the British Lion," though how this can be performed it seems impossible to with the majority of American assertions. explain, and the statement is commonly classed A sort of alliance has been remarked to exist tended this vast influence over a period of ten years antecedent to 1825-i. e., from 1815 to 1830, he had been nearer the truth. He is per- between the eagle and the Gallic cock (Gallus tolfectly correct, however, when he says, that since 1830 the influence of the press has been gradually erabilis bonus, LINN.; Coq assez-respectable, BUFF.) lessening from the increased number of publica-owing probably, to their sharing in the antipathy tions, and the spread of education among the comto the British animal, but this is a strange and unmunity, which now exercises its own judgment. natural alliance, for the gallant cock, with all his He might also have added that the influence of the faults, is a much more valuable bird. press has declined from the abuse of its own power, and from the multiplication of journals, some of which are conducted without talent, and many of which are conducted without principle. Mr. Mackinnon has proved that in America the influence of the press has diminished in proportion to the number of papers; and in France, the power of the press for political purposes is History of Civilization. By W. A. Mackinnon, F.R.S., M.P. Longman & Co., 1846. 6 CXIII. LIVING AGE. VOL. X. Many eminent naturalists, who have watched the American species now under discussion, are of opinion that the race is becoming deteriorated, and losing some high distinctions which it undoubtedly possessed; the colors grow dimmer; and it is expected that (if the deterioration continues) the stars which adorn the wing of the bird will be all extinguished; the stripes on the back, however, are likely to be greatly multiplied.-Punch. *By the author of "Dashes at Life with a Free Pen cil." From Chambers' Journal, as a little practical joke. It may be added, that the cat stood it for some time very tranquilly; but at last, appearing to get irritated by the iteration of It is extremely curious to observe in animals such absurd procedure, she gave her offspring a ways and doings like those of human beings. It blow on the side of the head, that sent the little is a department of natural history which has never creature spinning to the other side of the room. been honored with any systematic study: perhaps The kitten looked extremely surprised at this act it is thought too trifling for grave philosophers. I of mamma, as considering it very ungracious of must profess, however, that I feel there is some her not to take the joke in the way it was meant. value in the inquiry, as tending to give us sympathies with the lower animals, and to dispose us to treat them more kindly than we generally do. The same gentleman has observed similar fun going on in a department of the animal kingdom certainly far below the point where we would have expected it; namely, among spiders. He has The sports of animals are peculiarly affecting. seen a little spider capering about its parents, runThey come home to our social feelings; and the ning up to it, and then away again, so as to leave idea is the more touching, when we regard the no doubt upon his mind that the creature was poor beasts as perhaps enjoying themselves when making merry. Ants, too, have their sports. on the very brink of suffering death for our enjoy-They pat each others' cheeks, wrestle and tumble, and ride on each others' backs, like a set of schoolboys. ment. It is reported by all who have the charge of flocks, that the lambs resemble children very much The kindly social acts of animals, among themin their sports. In the mellowed glow of a June selves and towards mankind, form the next series evening, while the ewes are quietly resting in of phenomena to which I would direct attention. preparation for their night's sleep, the lambs Burns justly eulogizes, as a high virtue, the being gather together at a little distance, perhaps in the disposed to hold our being on the terms, "Each neighborhood of a broomy knoll, and there begin aids the others." It is the grand distinction of a set of pranksome frolics of their own, dancing human society, to interpose for the comfort and fantastically about, or butting, as in jest, against protection of each other in needful cases. Many each other. The whole affair is a regular game families of the lower animals are indifferent on at romps, such as a merry group of human younk- such points; but others are not. It is not yet ers will occasionally be allowed to enjoy just many months since some workmen, engaged in before going to bed. It is highly amusing to wit-repairing the cathedral of Glasgow, observed an ness it, and to trace the resemblance it bears to unusual concourse of sparrows coming regularly to human doings; which is sometimes carried so far, a hole in one of the slanting walls, and there that a single mamma will be seen looking on close making a great ado, as if feeding some birds withby, apparently rather happy at the idea of the in. Curiosity being at length excited, the men young folk being so merry, but anxious also that they should not behave too roughly; otherwise, she must certainly interfere. Monkeys have similar habits. In the countries of the Eastern Peninsula and Archipelago, where they abound, the matrons are often observed, in the cool of the evening, sitting in a circle round their little ones, which amuse themselves with various gambols. The merriment of the young, as they jump over each others' heads, make mimic fights, and wrestle in sport, is most ludicrously contrasted with the gravity of their seniors, which might be presumed as delighting in the fun, but far too staid and wise to let it appear. There is a regard, however, to discipline; and whenever any foolish babe behaves decidedly ill, the mamma will be seen to jump into the throng, seize the offender by the tail, and administer exactly that extreme kind of chastisement which has so long been in vogue among human parents and human teachers. proceeded to examine the place, and found that a mother bird, after the flight of her brood, had got her leg entangled in some of the threads composing her nest, so that she was kept a prisoner. The leg was visibly swollen by the chafing produced by her efforts to escape. In this distressing situation the poor bird had been condoled with and fed by her fellows, exactly as a human being might have been in similar circumstances. Not long before that time, in the pleasuregrounds of Rannoch Lodge in Perthshire, a little field-bird was observed by the gamekeeper to wound itself by flying against one of the so-called invisible fences; whereupon a companion, not stated to have been a mate, came and sat beside it, as it were sighing and sobbing, careless whether he himself was caught-which was easily done by the spectator of the scene. He took home the two birds, and had them carefully attended to, till the wounded bird had a little recovered; he then set them both at liberty; and, to pursue the narrative That there is merriment-genuine human-like of a local newspaper, "nothing could have been merriment-in many of the lower animals, no more touching than the affectionate solicitude one can doubt who has ever watched the gam-with which the one watched the progress of bols of the kid, the lamb, the kitten, or of dogs, which "Scour away in lang excursion, And worry other in diversion." the other-now lending it a wing, and again cheering it while it rested, until both were at length lost to the view of the kind-hearted gamekeeper." Instances like these could be multiplied indefi But there is something to be observed in these nitely. They are the daily habits of some creasports still more human-like than mere sport. The tures. The dugong, a whale-like animal, but herprinciple of make-believe, or jest as opposed to ear-bivorous, has the social feeling so strong, that, nest, can be discerned in many of their merry- when one is harpooned, the others flock around, makings. A friend of mine one day observed a kitten amusing itself by running along past its mother, and giving her a little pat on the cheek every time it passed. This must have been done regardless of their own danger, and endeavor to wrench out the weapon with their teeth. In what is this different from a soldier shielding a comrade, or endeavoring to rescue him from dying of his wounds on the field of battle? Of the many anec- flock, till she reached home. The manner of her dotes told respecting rational-looking proceedings acting on this trying occasion was afterwards of animals for the benefit of each other, I shall gathered by the shepherd from various individuals, adopt one related by Monk Lewis in one of his who had observed these extraordinary proceedings letters. "About ten days ago, [writing in Ja- of the poor animal on the road. It is painful to maica,] one of the farm-keeper's wives was going add, that she did not succeed in bringing her offhomeward through the wood, when she saw a roe- spring alive to her master's house. As a pendent buck running towards her with great speed. to this tale, take one relating to a Newfoundland Thinking that it was going to attack her with its dog, which lived a few years ago with a family in horns, she was considerably alarmed; but, at the one of the southern States of the American Union, distance of a few paces, the animal stopped, and and which had rescued one of its master's daughdisappeared among the bushes. The woman re-ters from drowning. The family had to proceed covered herself, and was proceeding on her way, in a schooner for the city of St. Augustine: they when the roebuck appeared again, ran towards her as before, and again retreated, without doing her any harm. On this being done a third time, the woman was induced to follow it, till it led her to the side of a deep ditch, in which she discovered a young roebuck unable to extricate itself, and on the point of being smothered in the water. The woman immediately endeavored to rescue it, during which the other roebuck stood quietly by, and as soon as her exertions were successful, the two animals gallopped away together." had embarked, and the vessel was swinging off from the pier, when the dog was missed. To quote a newspaper narrative:-" They whistled and called, but no dog appeared; the captain be came restive, swore he would wait no longer, gave the order, and the craft swept along the waters with a spanking breeze, and was soon a quarter of a mile from the shore. The girl and her father were standing at the stern of the vessel, looking back upon the city, which they had probably left forever, when suddenly Towser was seen running The same measures have often been adopted by down to the edge of the wharf with something in his dogs on account of a master who has fallen into mouth. With a glass, they discovered that it was any kind of trouble. Leaving him, they run home, his master's pocket-handkerchief, which had been scratch at the door, and, on gaining admittance, dropped somewhere upon the road down to the pull the skirts of wife or servant, to induce her to vessel, and which he now recollected, with some come to the spot for his relief. The horse, too, compunctions of conscience, he had sent his sometimes shows this species of sagacious kind-shaggy servant back to look after. The dog ness. Not three months before the time when this looked piteously around upon the bystanders, then paper was written, the horse of a man called at the retreating vessel, and leapt boldly into the Graham, belonging to the Stainmore collieries, water. His master immediately pointed out the came home in the evening without him. Accord- noble animal to the captain, and requested him to ing to a local chronicler, the animal" proceeding direct to the house-door, and commenced neighing, and seemed greatly distressed. Being a docile, playful animal, Graham's family did not at first take much notice of its complaints, not thinking but that Graham himself was not far distant; he, however, not arriving in a short time, and the horse still continuing its wailings, they became a little alarmed, and a person was therefore despatched on the road in search of him. He was found lying on the road near Coupland Beck, a distance of two miles from Appleby, with his head severely cut, and in an insensible state. The evening was extremely cold, and a pinching frost having set in, he would doubtless have perished had he lain much longer." It appeared that the poor man had fallen asleep, and in that state tumbled from his cart. The sense of duty is another of the human-like characteristics of animals, and one of those best known. A dog will take a trust, and fulfil it as well as a man. A very affecting instance was presented about two years ago by a female dog belonging to a shepherd near Dunning in Perthshire. The man had bought for his master, at Falkirk, four score of sheep, which he immediately despatched homewards, under the care of his dog alone, though the flock had to go seventeen miles through a populous country. The poor animal, when a few miles on the road, dropped two whelps; but, faithful to her charge, she drove the sheep on a mile or two farther; then, allowing them to stop, returned for her pups, which she carried for about two miles in advance of the sheep. Leaving her pups, the collie again returned for the sheep, and drove them onwards a few miles. This she continued to do, alternately carrying her young ones, and taking charge of the throw his vessel into the wind, until the dog could near them. He also offered a large sum if he would drop his boat, and pick him up; told him of the manner in which he had preserved the life of his daughter; and again offered him the price of a passage if he would save the faithful creature. The girl joined her entreaties to those of her father, and implored that her early friend might be rescued. But the captain was a savage; he was deaf to every appeal of humanity; kept obstinately on his course; and the better animal of the two followed the vessel until, his strength exhausted, and his generous heart chilled by despair, he sank among the more merciful billows." The high degree in which animals are susceptible of attachment, needs little illustration; for every one knows the dog and horse. One is, however, less struck by the general fact, that these animals, and some others, devote themselves to a kindly and servile association with man, than by the particular friendships which certain animals form with individuals of our species, as if from some peculiar, though inscrutable election of qualities, or, it may be, merely from accidental contact. We can even, in some instances, see this attended by a demonstration of an auld lang syne feeling, such as usually attends the rencontres of human friends long separated. For example-A few years ago, a sailor, entering a show of wild beasts at Plymouth, was surprised to find a tiger very much agitated at his approach, acting always with the greater violence the nearer he came to its cage. The keeper, to whom he pointed out the circumstance, remarked that the beast must either be greatly pleased, or as much annoyed. Upon this the sailor went close up to the den, and, after a few minutes, during which the animal lashed its sides with its tail, and uttered the most frightful on. bellowings, he discovered that it was a tiger which | before. "She will not speak to me to day," said had been brought home to England a few years Dr. Gall. Not long ago, it was stated in a Plybefore under his especial care. It now became mouth newspaper that two dogs, a setter and a Jack's turn to be delighted, as it appears the tiger little spaniel, being kept in the same kennel, the was, in thus recognizing his old friend; and, after larger animal manifested a great jealousy of the making repeated applications to be permitted to smaller. At length the little dog was missing, enter the den, for the purpose, as he said, of and the setter was found to have taken ill. The shaking a fist" with the beautiful animal, he latter dying very quickly, was opened, when the vas suffered so to do the iron door was opened, little dog was found almost entire in its stomach. and in jumped Jack, to the delight of himself and striped friend, and the astonishment of the lookersThe affection of the animal was now shown by caressing and licking the pleased sailor, whom he seemed to welcome with the heartiest satisfaction; and when the honest tar left the den, the anguish of the poor animal appeared almost insupportable. Was not this the very same sentiment which makes us sing, "Should auld acquaintance be forgot?" But animals of much lower grade will strike up friendships with men. There is an anecdote of a goose which became unaccountably attached to a farmer in Ireland, insomuch that it raised a joke at his expense. One day it followed him to a court, which he was attending upon public duty, and so irritated was he, that he twisted his whip about its neck, aad swung it round till he thought it dead. Some time after, when he was lying dangerously ill, he was horror-struck to observe the same goose looking in at his window. His daughter told him it had waited there, with an air of the greatest concern, during the whole time of his illness. Of course there was no standing this disinterested attachment, and the poor goose was instantly admitted into favor. This predilection of animals for particular persons was once the means of deciding, very amusingly, a case before a court of justice. It was a Dublin police-office, and the object of dispute was a pet parrot, which had been stolen from a Mr. Davis, and sold to a Mr. Moore. The plaintiff, taking the bird upon his finger, said, "Come, old boy, give me a kiss," which the parrot instantly did. A youth in the defendant's interest, remarked that this proved nothing, as the parrot Revenge is not a conspicuous animal passion. The incapacity of deep impressions is perhaps a preventive to it. But it is not quite unknown. James Hogg tells a story of a dog which was much annoyed by the persecutions of a larger animal of his own species, till one day he brought a still more powerful friend, which set upon, and gave the persecutor such a worrying, as served to deter him from his cruelty in future. Mr. Thomson, in his Note-Book of a Naturalist, relates a similar circumstance as occurring some time since at the seat of a noble lord in Surrey. "In the park are two large pieces of water divided by a small isthmus, which widens considerably at one extremity, and at the time in question, a pair of swans were the occupants. A doe and her fawn, belonging to a herd of deer in the park, coming down to one of the pieces of water to drink, were immediately set upon by the swans; and the fawn, by their joint efforts, was got into deep water, and drowned. After a considerable interval of time, when the swans were one day on the wide part of the isthmus, and thus separated from their element, and at a disadvantage, a rush was made upon them by a number of the deer, which trod under foot, and destroyed one of them. The bereaved doe must have had some means of communicating her loss to the other deer, and of urging them to help her in her revenge; and the most remarkable part of the transaction is, that the deer must have a kind of consciousness of the fitness of the moment, when the swans were, to a great extent, defenceless, or at least deprived of their greatest advantage, and had no means of effecting their retreat to the water." would kiss anybody. "You had better not try,' An anecdote was lately given in a newspaper, remarked the plaintiff. Nevertheles the young which would show animals to be even capable of a man asked the parrot to kiss him. Poll, Judas- sense of equity; but perhaps there is some exaglike, advanced as if to give the required salute, geration about it. A gentleman, visiting a menabut seized the youth's lip and made him roar with gerie at Penrith, found there a fine lioness with pain. This fact, and the parrot's obeying the two cubs. While he was observing her, the plaintiff in several other requisitions, caused it to keeper handed in a sheep's head to the cubs, be instantly ordered into the possession of its orig- which instantly began to quarrel over it, as if each inal master. desired exclusive possession of the prize. In the midst of the turmoil the lioness rose and advanced, and with two well-directed cuffs, sent them cowering into the corners of the den. She then lay down, and deliberately dividing the spoil into two equal parts, assigned one to each of her young ones; after which, without taking a morsel to herself, she retired, and lay quietly down again. If the fact was exactly as thus related, it certainly forms one of the most curious illustrations of animal humanity which we have on record. Human foibles, too, are participated by animals. The dog, I grieve to say, is capable of both envy and jealousy. A gentleman, calling one day upon Dr. Gall, at Paris, found that most original observer of nature in the midst of birds, cats, and dogs, which were his pets. "Do you think,' said he, turning his eyes to two beautiful dogs at his feet, which were endeavoring to gain his attention" do you think that these little pets possess pride and vanity like man?" "Yes," said the other, "I have remarked their vanity fre- But, it might be asked, what class of ordinary quently.' "We will call both feelings into human actions is not imitated by animals? A action," said he. He then caressed the whelp, gentleman comes home late at night, and uses the and took it into his arms. "Mark that mother's knocker to gain admission; a cat belonging to a offended pride," said he, as he walked quietly friend of ours used to do the same. A weary across the chamber to her mat. "Do you think pedestrian rejoices to get a cast in a passing omnishe will come if I call her?" an- bus; in the Magazine of Natural History (1833,) swered his friend." "Not at all." He made is an anecdote of a dog which, being in like cirthe attempt; but she heeded not the hand she had so earnestly endeavored to lick but an instant "Oh yes,' * Medical and Physical Journal, November, 1829. |