Notes On Liter Pure, Science, And Art.

Henry j ones s Museum . It seems , in my A'arious visits to Stratford-on-Avon , I have missed two great curiosities , viz . —Henry Jones and his Museum , But the graphic descriptions Avhich Mr . Jarvis gives us of both , aided by the numerous Avoodcuts just mentionedseems to make Henry ancl his

, Phusee Glyptic Museum in Bull Lane as familiar to one as the birth place of Shakspere in Henley Street , New Place , the old Grammar School , Stratford Church , Clifton House , Charlecote , Welcombe , Snitterfield , or any of the lovely

Shaksperean places where I have lingered so long aud loathed to leave them , feeling Stratfordon-Avon and its vicinage really to be classic ground . Passing Mr . Jarvis ' s welldeserved rub in the preface on "the trained band of book-stabbers that are to be met with , from Avhose industrious hands six leaves out of sixty alone remained open to show the careful amount of critical research

books have occasionall y had at their hands , "—and evidently some of the Athenatum critics even have never read the hooks they " notice "—and being put into good humour by hh anecdote of " an illustrious gentleman , " Avho " meeting his

tailor , an eminent man in his art , who had been to Margate , " but " complained that society Avas very mixed , " to Avhich the tailor ' s patron replied , "Why , surely , you would not have them all tailors I " —an anecdote Avorth rinting and hanging

p up in the ante-rooms of our Loclges for the edification of such snobs as occasionally continue to sneak into the good old Craft , maugre the ballot— -let us pass on to see hoAv Henry Jones is , and Avhat is the nature of his MuseumAvhichby aid of

; , Mr . Jarvis ' s amusing book , there is not the slightest difficulty in doiug . " By the Way side on many rambling tours , " sayshe , ' I have oftentimes been struck Avith

amazement at the various types of fossilized humanity ( if such a term can be admitted ) to be met in odd , out-of-the-Avay places . " Henry Jones , it appears , is " a self-taught artist , a carver in AVOOCI and stone , "—not quite an Appelles , a Bacon , or a Chautrey ;

thoug h there is no saying what a life-long training to statuary , instead of to cobbling , n « ght have accomplished . Mr . Jarvis i- 'eminda us that John Pounds , of Portsuiouth , Avas the originator of ragged schools m England , and pays him a Avell-deserved

compliment , which I must reluctantly pass withoutcpiotingat present ; that Thomas Cooper , the Chartist poet , and others , belonged also to the honourable fraternity of Corclwainers . I could myself fill a whole Magazine Avith brief mention of illustrious

ancl remarkable sons of St . Crispin , of Avhom Mr . Jarvis makes no mention . But as Henry Jones seems to have " gone beyond his last" about " the time of our struggles in the Crimea , " by " the formation of a local museum ( not of collected

curiosities , Avith which the Avealthy can be gratified to repletion , " ) Ave will pass the shoemakers from honest George Fox and Sir Cloudesley Shovel dowmvards . "The roots of trees , " we are informed , " engaged the attention of our artist , as being full

of subject . To make his art substantial ancl real , find that in his pcregerinations he has added roots of eveiy ' size and kind , and made them subservient by prudent lopping aud carving extremities and terminals as hands and feetaud has

, produced a perfect myriad of curious objects . " It seems our good brother , the late " Vicar Granville , felt an interest in him , " and this compound name of the museum ,

phusee-glyptic , he assures us , means partly nature , partly art . " Our artist , " says Mr . Jarvis , " AVIU take up a rude stone he has found in his path ( for nowhere does he lose sight of his art ) , he points out to you a slight ( at first ) outline of a featureAvhichlike the- marked outline

, , in a puzzle Avoodcut landscape , Ai'ill be readily enough observed Avhen pointed out ; but , as he observes , it must be excog-he-tated ( excogitated ) , close application and penetration must be AA ell exercised" & c . All manner of birdsbeasts

, , , reptiles , and fishes seem to have been produced by our . undeveloped Apelles from roots and forked branches of trees , ancl from stones partly fashioned to his hands by freaks of nature—if nature ever does play her freaks , which for my own

part I don't believe—and he has even produced Spencer Lucy as Master of the Warwickshire Hounds , with huntsmen and dogs in full cry ; my friends the Flowers , father and son , Avho have have almost made Stratford as famous for its beer as for its bard ; Halliwell , the great Shaksperean ; nay , he has even been bold enough to attempt the great bard himself ,