ENGLISH EXTRACTS.

Otago Daily Times, Issue 235, 20 September 1862, Page 6

ENGLISH EXTRACTS.

hadx;.-A'BT{frti.-—Avery-curious bookcomeS 10 us from Greenland, of all places in the world; It. 13 a thin quarto' volume, containing forty woodcuts drawn and; engraved by artists of Greenland, native Esquimaux. They are the results of experiments made .between.lßs6. and 1860 -to determine whether mere existed among the Esquimaux a taste for tbi3 •branch. ;of art. Thfcy hWe all been engraved, nadj mth two exceptions, desi-njed by five or six natives, ! wjthoat aiiy other help than the wood aud tbe tools. As the Esquimau-: are not traveller, the sabjeets , are local. There ia, tor example, a foll-leagth coloured portrait of a young lady of Godchaab,. iv holiday coaturae, which enables her to display to nta°*a handsome pair of leas; next a, woman, with: a chid at her back peeping with wondering eyes over, its ..mother's! shoulder, a piece which, were it not for the costume, might easily pass for a bit of early Italian art-and there la a Greenland interior, quite as good as Teniera in its way, showing a wall covered with pictures, with a fiddle and a Dutch clock hanginK up, a- dais on which the beds are Placed, and where the inmates .it variously occupied, tbe father smoking his pips, tbe mother dandling a big boy, one ieinale nursing b baby, others making garments, and so on. * Home Nevea,