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11. to lace the unt un-Iby ► be ntlyi on in a anti iest. fire, tiersKOIarm £2o J byting i ou iiur, and inch the t of ins. tai-iers. this• Thu WILD Flowkbs Abound Melbourne.— Thu is the title of a new album of wihl flower* Irom the pencil of a Victorian lady-Miaa J. A. Charsley. Its exquisite delineations will render it a treasure to botanists and to lo\era of art. Nothing we have jet met with in lithography can rank beaide it-not even Gould. And well may it excel, for it ia from the establishment of Messrs. Day Son, the first lithographers in England. Miss Charsley has given them worthy material to work upon. Her specimens seem to he all very accurately painted, and there can be no question about their beauty. Most of them are very intiicate. and some almost microscopically minute, hut every, where there is the delicate graceful touch of a refined artist. The colouring is always e'ear and vivid, without going beyond the natural tone. Some of the greens, in particular, are so skilfully shaded that it needs very little effort to imagine them real leaves. There are thirteen plates in all, each containing from one to five figures, and accompanied by descriptive letter press, in which Mi* Charsley has had the assistance of Dr Mueller. Between them they have produced a beautiful combination of science and art: an ornament for the drawing-ioom, aud an acquisition to the library. The binding is superb, without any garni i ness or glitter. Altogether, it is a work which at the approaching Christmas season will have very few equals in the catalogue of Christmas gif te.New Zealand.—The Arum has received New
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Adelaide Observer
Adelaide, South Australia, AU
Sat, Nov 14, 1868
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