Evening Republican, Volume 15, Number 7, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 January 1911 — NOVEL MUSEUM IN ENGLAND [ARTICLE]

NOVEL MUSEUM IN ENGLAND

The Adult as Weil as the Child la Amused at the Wonderful Ingenuity Displayed. Beneath the shadow of the ruined castle at Bramber, England, there is a novel and interesting museum. The exhibits are principally examples of the art of the taxidermist, sayß the Strand; but the subjects are treated in such a humorous manner as to reader the museum unique in England. From a child’s point of view It is a veritable Wonderland, reminiscent of the strange sights seen by Alice when she made her journey into that delectable country. The adult is no less amused and agreeably surprised at the wonderful Ingenuity thece displayed. The idea of thus combining the art of the taxidermist with that of the humorist was generated in the brain of W. Po(ter. In 1861 Mr. Potter set to work to construct his first set plecd, illustrating the "Death and Burial of Cock Robin." This work was done in Mr. Potter’s spare time and was not completed until seven years bad elapsed. The whole of the incidents in the story are graphically portrayed, and aa evidencing the patience and perseverance exercised by Mr. Potter it may be stated that no fewer than 100 specimens of British birds are Included in the setting. In addition to the birds which figure In the story, there are the cuckoo, nightingale, goldfinch, hawkflnch, bramble finch, wryneck, etc. Much ingenuity is displayed in the atrangcment of the "fish with his dish,” the “fly with his little eye," the owl, the bull, rendered in miniature, the rook, and the mourning birds all a-sighing and a-sobbing.