. Review of reviews and world's work . olidays, with hun-dreds of thousands without robbing the woods oftheir primitive charm. Thus it is that within anyaccessible distance of a great town the country islaid waste. Large cities and primitiveness are in-compatible, and yet people would so gladly knowthe various aspects of jungle, plain, virgin forest,swamp. Fortunately, a comparatively amplespace is at disposal for Hagenbecks venture. Hispark at Hamburg is world-renowned, and in spiteof the great number of zoological gardens in Ger-many, it has in a short time aroused the special in-terest of b
. Review of reviews and world's work . olidays, with hun-dreds of thousands without robbing the woods oftheir primitive charm. Thus it is that within anyaccessible distance of a great town the country islaid waste. Large cities and primitiveness are in-compatible, and yet people would so gladly knowthe various aspects of jungle, plain, virgin forest,swamp. Fortunately, a comparatively amplespace is at disposal for Hagenbecks venture. Hispark at Hamburg is world-renowned, and in spiteof the great number of zoological gardens in Ger-many, it has in a short time aroused the special in-terest of both natives and foreigners. And thiswith good right, for it is constantly being freshlysupplied, at first hand, by the popular founderwith animals from every quarter of the globe ac-cessible to his widespread forces. The writer was profoundly impressed at V.;,^ C-^^i- ,.;« „r TJT l. i > ,• ,0^1 liy George Grantham Bain, N. Y. fns hrst view of Hagenbeck s creation at Stel- carl hagenbeck, the famous animal trainer. 492 TUE AMERICAN REVIEW OF REVIEWS whose beginnings reach back many hundreds ofthousands of years; nor the fact that in the terti-ary period, in particular, our globe teemed withhighly developed animal life. Man had to fight hisway through it inch by inch to his present stage ofperfection. Hagenbecks idea is to give us a real-izing sense of those past conditions. Molded ofstone, of colossal proportions, he surrounded a poolwith the giant animals of the primeval world, someof them reptiles that lived millions of years ago butwhose remains are preserved imbedded in stones;with huge flying dragons and other gigantic crea-tures- now matched in size only by our oceanwhales. Only one step further and the visitorbeholds a miniature arctic world, alive with seals,walruses and northern sea-birds, crowned by rocksand cra;s of arctic formation. And he sees, fur-ther, living specimens of the antarctic region: sea-elephants, sea-lions, penguins. In the backgr
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