William James Stillman was bom 

 in Schenectady, N. Y., June i, 1828, 

 and died at Frimley Green, Surrey, 

 England, July 6, 1901. In The Auto- 

 biography of a Journalist, (1901) he 

 has given one of the most fascinat- 

 ing and spiritually truthful narra- 

 tives ever written. 



This lover of animals who num- 

 bered among his friends Lowell, 

 Longfellow, and Charles Eliot 

 Norton, to name but three, wrote 

 Billy and Hans in the last years of 

 a long and beautiful life. The story 

 was first published in the Century 

 Magazine for February, 1897. It 

 was later on revised and enlarged, 

 then reissued in the Life and Light 

 Books (George Bell & Sons, Lon- 

 don, 1907). With the kind permis- 

 sion of Mrs. Marie Stillman we now 

 offer a reprint of this edition. 



