The Bookbinder's Whale

The hindoo whale referred to occurs in a separate depart ment of the wall depicting the incarnation of vishnu. But go to the old galleries and look now at a great christian painter's portrait of this fish. For he succeeds no better than the hindu. The huge corpulence of that hulgarthian monster undulates on the surface, scarcely drawing one inch of water. It has a sort of howda on its back. And its distended, tusked mouth, into which the billows are rolling, might be taken for the trader's gate leading from the thames by water into the tower. That is a very picturesque, but purely fabulous creature im