From the Examiner,August 2d.

“The title-page of this agreeable little volume sufficiently commendsits pleasant contents. To whom, old or young, will it not be welcome?Who has not, young or old, seen, laughed at, revisited, and broughtaway, pleasant recollections of the Stuffed Animals from theZollverein?

“It was a good notion, that of perpetuating these clever productionsby means of daguerreotype and wood-engraving. They are very nicelyexecuted in this volume, and wonderfully like. It is needless toparticularise where all is so graphic and faithful; but let the studiouslittle rabbit over his arithmetic lesson at p. 32, with that demureconscience-strikenpair behind him wincing at the flogging of their idle brother, beespecially admired.

“We must add that the letterpress is not unworthy of the humour andfidelity of the illustrations. The various Weasels, Rabbits, and Foxes,are brought into one little tale; the Wonderful Hare-Hunt into another;the Tea-Party of Kittens, and the Marten and Tabby, into a third; theDuel of the Dormice, and the Frogs, form two separate and ingeniousanecdotes; and the story of Reynard the Fox is quaintly related in proseso far as was necessary to explain the six comical groups ofPloucquet.

“We predict a great run at Christmas for the Comical Creaturesfrom Wurtemberg.”

From the Morning Chronicle,August 12th.

“The book is a clever and a pleasant memento of the Great Exhibition.The drawings are careful and clever, and convey a very correctrepresentation of the original creatures, with all, or nearly all, theirsubtlety of expression and aspect. The capital fatuity of the Rabbitsand Hares, the delightful scoundrelism of the Fox, the cunningshrewdness of the Marten and Weasels, the hoyden visages of the Kittens,and the cool, slippery demeanour of the Frogs, are all capitally given.The book may lie on the drawing-room table, or be thumbed in thenursery; and in the latter case we have little doubt that many an urchinstill in petticoats will in future years associate his most vividrecollection of the Great Exhibition of 1851 with Mr. Bogue’sperpetuation of the Comical Creatures from Wurtemberg.”