tion,
1862).

[124] "The Works of Jeremy Bentham," now first collected under the
superintendence of his executor, John Bowring, vol. xi. pp. 80, 81.

[125] Jeremy Bentham's house in Queen's Square was that which had been
occupied by the great poet.

[126] Vol. i. No. 3. p. 27.

[127] _Times_, 18 Dec. 1830, quoted by Southey, "Common-Place Book," iv.
p. 489.

[128] "Physic and Physicians," a medical sketch-book, vol. ii. p. 363
(1839).

[129] "A Book for a Rainy Day," p. 103. Old Smith was a regular hunter
after legacies, and like all such was often disappointed. His
"Nollekens" is a fine example.

[130] "Memoirs of James Montgomery," by Holland and Everett, iv. pp.
114, 115.

[131] "A History of Peeblesshire," by William Chambers of Glenormiston,
p. 403 (1864).

[132] See vol. v. p. 145.

[133] A cat of Mr Bedford's.

[134] "Life and Correspondence," v. p. 223.

[135] On Instinct, a Lecture delivered before the Dublin Natural History
Society, 11th November 1842. Dublin, 1847. P. 10.

TIGER AND LION.

These most ferocious of the Carnivora have afforded interesting subjects
to many a traveller. An extensive volume of truly sensational adventure
might be compiled about them, adding a chapter for the jaguar and the
leopard, two extremely dangerous spotted cats, that can do what neither
tigers nor lions are able to do--namely, climb trees. Having once asked
a friend, who was at the death of many a wild beast, which was the most
savage animal he had ever seen, he replied, "A wounded leopard." It was
to such an animal that Jacob referred when he saw Joseph's clothes, and
said--"Some evil beast hath devoured him." Colonel Campbell's work, from
which the first paragraph is derived, contains much about the pursuit of
the tiger. Dr Livingstone's travels and Gordon Cumming's books on South
Africa, neither of which we have quoted, have thrilling pages about the
lordly presence of "the king of beasts." Mr Joseph Wolf and Mr Lewis are
perhaps the best draughtsmen of the lion among recent artists. The
public admire much Sir Edwin Landseer's striking bronze lions on the
pedestal of the Nelson Monument. That artist excels in his pictures of
the lion. On the Assyrian monuments in the British Museum are many
wonderfully executed lion hunts, as perfectly preserved as if they had
been chiselled in our day. Parts of these bas-reliefs were certainly
designed from actual sketches made from the lions and dogs, which t