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and ' Tiny,' and to his spaniel, are illustrations of the testi- 

 mony of the poet to animal excellence. 



13. The novelist has done, perhaps, more than even the 

 poet, by the frequency of his references to, and the fidelity of 

 his descriptions of, the moral and intellectual character of 

 certain animals, to draw man's attention to a, deserving and 

 neglected class of his fellow-creatures. Sir Walter Scott's 

 affection for his f Maida ' and other dogs, and his descrip- 

 tions of the ' Dandie Dinmont ' terriers are equally well- 

 known wherever English literature is read or studied. His 

 ' Helvellyn/ like Greyfriars Bobby* was equally honoured in 

 life and death. The late Lord (Bulwer) Lytton graphically 

 depicts dog-character in several of his novels ; while George 

 Eliot, George Macdonald, ' Ouida,' and several other well- 

 known writers of different types do the same in theirs. 



14. Other writers who are neither poets nor novelists 

 have given us, sometimes in memorial editions de luxe, 

 life histories, purporting to be autobiographies, of favourite 

 animal-companions. Such a volume is the autobiography of 

 ' Fido,' a pet dog of Dr. William Chambers, formerly Lord 

 Provost of Edinburgh, whose name has already been honour- 

 ably mentioned in connection with the story of c Greyfriars 

 Bobby ' and its honours. 



15. The painter has not been behind either poet or novel- 

 ist in his truthful delineation of animal character, making 

 such animals as the dog, cat, monkey, horse, almost speak 

 from the canvas. The wonderful fidelity to nature of the 

 animal-painting of Landseer and Eosa Bonheur among living 

 artists, and of Vandyke, Knud ' the Cat Kaphael,' and 

 others, among those of bygone ages, is familiar to all lovers 

 and students of pictorial art. 



16. Scarcely inferior to the painter is the sculptor, in his 

 plastic representation of certain animals and their physiog- 

 nomy ; who again has invoked the aid of the architect in the 

 erection of the memorial monuments of all kinds which the 

 sculptor's art does so much to adorn. 



17. The provision of public water-troughs for both the 

 larger and smaller domestic animals horses and cattle on 

 the one hand, dogs and sheep on the other. Here, again, 



