nspected by _fifty thousand_ visitors; and as a proof
that they have excited some interest and much admiration, I subjoin at
the end of this little volume a few extracts from the public journals.

I have but little more to add--

"Now to the world my little book go forth,
With all thy faults."

I cannot expect it will escape the criticism and censure of some; but if
it meet the approbation of the discerning, and carries out my cherished,
my promised views, that of instructing the uninitiated--furthering the
purposes of Wax Flower Modelling--and refreshing the memories of my
earliest pupils, who may for a season have neglected so charming an
occupation, I shall be more than repaid for the trials and
disappointments attending the various efforts I have made to satisfy
all.

"Hoping the best--ready the worst to brook,
Yet seeking friendly hearts--go forth, my little book."

"As life is then so short, we should so live and labour that we may have
pleasing remembrances to console and cheer us at its close; let us work
earnestly and diligently, not only for our own good, but for that of our
fellow creatures:--

"Oh! let us live so, that flower by flower,
Shutting in turn, may leave
A lingerer still, for the sunset hour,
A charm for the shaded eve!"
HEMANS.

EXHIBITION OF
WAX FRUITS AND FLOWERS,
BY MRS. PEACHEY,
ARTISTE TO HER MAJESTY.

The following eloquent awards of the press are placed as nearly as
possible in the order of their respective dates, but the dates are
necessarily omitted.

Mrs. Peachey, artiste to her Majesty, has now on private view at her
rooms, 35, Rathbone Place, a superb collection of works intended for
the Great Exhibition. They consist principally of an enormous
bouquet of flowers and a colossal vase of fruit, both of which have
been executed upon a scale never previously attempted in this
country. The flowers are so arranged, that they appear to stand in a
basket suspended over the surface of a pool of limpid water, in
which the _Victoria Regia_ and other similar plants are already
floating. Nothing can be more exquisite or artistic in effect than
the manner in which the various flowers are grouped. The bouquet
comprises specimens of almost every flower known to the botanist,
from the simple honeysuckle of the cottage garden, to the rarest and
most valuab