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Title: The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction
Vol. XX. No. 556., Saturday, July 7, 1832

Author: Various

Release Date: June 10, 2004 [EBook #12574]

Language: English

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THE MIRROR OF LITERATURE, AMUSEMENT, AND INSTRUCTION.

VOL. XX. No. 556.] SATURDAY, JULY 7, 1832. [PRICE 2d.

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SURREY ZOOLOGICAL GARDENS.

[Illustration: CIRCULAR BUILDING FOR LIONS, TIGERS, &c.]

[Illustration: INTERIOR OF CIRCULAR BUILDING.]

[Illustration: ROCKWORK FOR BEAVERS, &c.]

SURREY ZOOLOGICAL GARDENS.

[Although the reader will scarcely fail to recognise the typographical
amendments contemplated in the Preface to our last volume, we may be
allowed to point attention to the most important change. To give our souls
"elbow-room," we have widened our columns so as to add upwards of two
pages throughout each sheet of our future volumes: that is sixteen pages
of the size of the present will be found to contain as much as eighteen
pages the size of those in our last volume. But the page has not been
widened like the citizen's back--at the expense of the corporation--or of
the public. The whole of the type is new, having been cast, as the
prospectus says, expressly for this work; its face is as brilliant as our
hopes, and so, now, with the reader's permission, Flow on thou shining
river.]

We commenced our last volume with three Vignette Views in the Surrey
Zoological Gardens. The season was then cold and ungenial, the trees
leafless; in short, it was about mid-winter, but the magic pencil of our
artist invested his scenes with all the pride of summer. Upon the present
occasion, our Engravings need not the aid of his creative fancy. The
Gardens are now

made glorious by the summer sun

--the weather and the public are all propitious, and hundreds of gaily
dressed folks are flocking to inspect the zoological and