The Lions presented by Lord Prudhoe to the British Museum are the best sculptured representations of the animal in this country. Although the Lion is our national hieroglyphic, and there are many statues of him, yet not one among them all appears without a defect, which makes our representations of him belong to the class canis instead of felis, a fault not found in any Egyptian sculpture.[9]
FOOTNOTES:
[8] Bonomi; "Nineveh and its Palaces," p. 249.
[9] Bonomi; "Proc. Royal Soc., Literature."
BIRD-LIFE.
"Behold the fowls of the air: for they sow not, neither do they reap, nor gather into barns; yet your Heavenly Father feedeth them."—Matthew vi. 26.
"Free tenants of land, air, and ocean,
Their forms all symmetry, their motions grace;