The Collie or Sheep Dog. 



fed, healthier-looking creatures than the pariah is usually 

 made to appear on canvas, and as he exists in his feral 

 state. They are certainly far removed from the mastiff or 

 Mollossian type, which Virgil would lead us to believe the 

 shepherds' dogs were ; and, in the absence of sundry goats 

 (not swine) in the background, these herdsmen's dogs of 

 our modern artist, might be taken for wild animals being 

 scared from the patriarch's flocks by the lovely vision of 

 Minerva. But the same hand has treated us to some even 

 more collie-like dogs than the above, in his two paintings, 

 " The Wounded Adonis " and " Adonis' Farewell." 



It would be interesting to know where the great artist 

 obtained his suggestion as to the colour he gives these 

 dogs, five of them in the second picture accompanying the 

 hero on a hunting excursion. 



Hunting he loved, but love he laughed to scorn. 



These animals, fawning upon and leaping around their 

 master, possess heads of the same type and with the same 

 kindly, sagacious expression in their features as seen in 

 our best shepherds' dogs of to-day. In colour they are 

 varying shades of so-called sable, fawn and orange, and black 

 and tan, the fashionable hue to be seen on the show bench, 

 as rich and bright as the handsomest to be found at the 

 late Crystal Palace and Birmingham exhibitions, and with 

 the white collar round their neck and white breasts like- 

 wise. One generally believed these collies, rich orange 

 sable in colour, were of modern manufacture, bred to attract 

 the eye and please the taste of their owner and of the 

 judge in the ring. Riviere on canvas tells us a different 

 story, and makes us afraid to consider these two lovely 

 works mythologically quite correct. Well enough they 



