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That very night, while gentle sleep
The urchin eyelids kiss'd,

Two stern-faced men set out from Lynn,

Through the cold and heavy mist;

And Eugene Aram walked between,
With gyves upon his wrist.

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LONDON:

Printed by Maurice and Co., Fenchurch Street.

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Just Published, in Two handsome Demy Octavo Volumes, one of QUADRUPEDS and one of BIRDS, Price 248., neatly bound in Cloth, containing Two Hundred and Thirty Engravings, exquisitely printed at the Chiswick Press by Whittingham; a very few Copies of the Work wholly printed on India Paper, Price 488., also a few India Proofs of the Engravings alone, Price £1. 11s. 6d. a set,

THE GARDENS AND MENAGERIE

OF THE

ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY

Delineated;

BEING DESCRIPTIONS AND FIGURES IN ILLUSTRATION OF THE NATURAL HISTORY OF THE LIVING ANIMALS IN THE SOCIETY'S COLLECTION.

PUBLISHED, WITH THE SANCTION OF THE COUNCIL, UNDER THE SUPERINTENDENCE OF THE SECRETARY AND VICE-SECRETARY OF THE SOCIETY.

The whole of the Drawings taken from Life by WILLIAM HARVEY, and Engraved on Wood by BRANSTON and WRIGHT, assisted by other Artists.

CHARLES TILT, 86, FLEET STREET.

From the above Work (lately completed in Sixteen Parts, Price 2s. 6d. each) having fallen into the hands of different Proprietors, the Publisher is enabled to offer it at the present reduced price, being little more than half the original cost; and from the immense care and talent employed, it is confidently hoped that a more beautiful work on Natural History was never offered to the Public, and certainly never before at so extremely moderate a price.

Critical Notices of the Work.

"This is a work which does credit to all the parties engaged in its production. The printing an elegant specimen of typography; the scientific descriptions are free from ambiguity, and h

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