" Good entertainment by man and beast" might be the
motto of the Lyceum ; though the new zoological melodrama, of which Mungo Park is the hero, is rather more tedious than necessary to produce impatience for the appearance of the lions and tigers. CARTER'S struggle with the tiger is the most telling feat ; for the brute is loose, and seems mas- tered by the sheer strength and courage of the man—who is a most powerful fellow : VAN ASIBURGU'S boldness and skill may be greater, but there is less excitement in seeing a man playing with a parcel of wild animals in a cage. The horsemanship is capital ; and the grace- ful feats of Ceam.i..E LEROUX are quite unique. The athletm, called the RIVER Family, exhibit extraordinary strength and agility ; the boy be- ing least, not last. " SWEENEY, the banjo-player," is as good an imita- tion Nigger as RICE: he plays a kind of guitar extremely well, and dances not ungracefully ; but his singing is not so effective as that of "Jim Crow." The performances of the pony Oceola, who frisks about and fetches and carries like a dog—and of the elephant Bolivar, who mimics lameness, and makes of his tusks an ivory throne for his keeper, his trunk twisting round the man's neck like a boa—are so surprising that one almost doubts whether the quadrupeds are not as intelligent as the bipeds.
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