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TALLIS'S HISTORY AND DESCRIPTION
THE CRYSTAL PALACE
CHAPTER I.
"WARREN'S LILT AND BEE—DAT IN THE CRYSTAL PALACE—THE QUEEN'S "VISIT—TERRIER AND
ADAMS----THE TRUE PHILOSOPHER'S STONE — PROFESSOR OWEN----VOLTAIRE'S " ZADIQ-"----A
BEWILDERED POET—THE BEE, ETC.
"We have already, "on several former occasions, placed before our readers the lucubrations
of learned men, of grave philosophers, and scientific writers, on the varied contents of the
Crystal Palace; and we trust they have been edified accordingly. "We now therefore
propose, in order to combine amusement with instruction, to present them with some
of the lighter flowers of literature which have been showered upon the same path; and
we accordingly invite them to a short acquaintance with an imaginative little work by
Mr. Warren, The Lily and the. Bee, a well-chosen title, admirably suggestive to the
practical mind of the whole aspect of the Exhibition—the lily representing beauty and
art; the bee industry, organization, and labour. To keep the lily and the bee more
constantly together than they have hitherto been—to wed art to labour—is one of the
results we may in future hopefully look for. Our author plunges at once in medias
res; we shall follow his example, and commence with—
" Day in the Crystal Palace!—There was music echoing through the transparent
fabric. Fragrant flowers and graceful shrubs were blooming and exhaling sweet odours.
Fountains were flashing and sparkling in the subdued sunlight: in living sculpture were
suddenly seen the grand, the grotesque, the terrible, the beautiful; objects of every form
and colour imaginable, far as the eye could reach, were dazzlingly intermingled; and
there were present sixty thousand sons and daughters of Adam, passing and re-passing,
ceaselessly: bewildered charmingly; gliding amidst bannered nations—-through country
after country renowned in ancient name, and great in modern: civilized and savage.
From the far East and West, misty in distance, faintly-echoed martial strains, or the
solemn anthem! The soul was approached through its highest senses, flooded with excite-
ment ; all its faculties were appealed to at once, and it sank for a while, exhausted, over-:
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THE CRYSTAL PALACE
CHAPTER I.
"WARREN'S LILT AND BEE—DAT IN THE CRYSTAL PALACE—THE QUEEN'S "VISIT—TERRIER AND
ADAMS----THE TRUE PHILOSOPHER'S STONE — PROFESSOR OWEN----VOLTAIRE'S " ZADIQ-"----A
BEWILDERED POET—THE BEE, ETC.
"We have already, "on several former occasions, placed before our readers the lucubrations
of learned men, of grave philosophers, and scientific writers, on the varied contents of the
Crystal Palace; and we trust they have been edified accordingly. "We now therefore
propose, in order to combine amusement with instruction, to present them with some
of the lighter flowers of literature which have been showered upon the same path; and
we accordingly invite them to a short acquaintance with an imaginative little work by
Mr. Warren, The Lily and the. Bee, a well-chosen title, admirably suggestive to the
practical mind of the whole aspect of the Exhibition—the lily representing beauty and
art; the bee industry, organization, and labour. To keep the lily and the bee more
constantly together than they have hitherto been—to wed art to labour—is one of the
results we may in future hopefully look for. Our author plunges at once in medias
res; we shall follow his example, and commence with—
" Day in the Crystal Palace!—There was music echoing through the transparent
fabric. Fragrant flowers and graceful shrubs were blooming and exhaling sweet odours.
Fountains were flashing and sparkling in the subdued sunlight: in living sculpture were
suddenly seen the grand, the grotesque, the terrible, the beautiful; objects of every form
and colour imaginable, far as the eye could reach, were dazzlingly intermingled; and
there were present sixty thousand sons and daughters of Adam, passing and re-passing,
ceaselessly: bewildered charmingly; gliding amidst bannered nations—-through country
after country renowned in ancient name, and great in modern: civilized and savage.
From the far East and West, misty in distance, faintly-echoed martial strains, or the
solemn anthem! The soul was approached through its highest senses, flooded with excite-
ment ; all its faculties were appealed to at once, and it sank for a while, exhausted, over-:
VOL. III. b