EXPRESSION IN THE ANIMAL EYE 199 
sole signal of welcome to his island home. The 
charm of this picture lies in the truth that in the 
eyes of the dog and in the eyes of the King the 
same emotion is actually present, and exhibited 
naturally and spontaneously by the organ of sight, 
without transgressing the limits of expression in the 
animal, which one of the greatest animal-painters 
not unfrequently ventured to do, by transferring to 
it modifications of feature only possible in the human 
eye. The expression which is associated with the 
most beautiful of animal eyes, those of the horse, 
the stag, and the eagle, is so dependent upon particular 
differences of shade and setting, in creatures whose 
emotions and intelligence cannot greatly differ in 
degree, — that its common interpretation must be due 
rather to analogy than to any appreciation of its 
meaning. 
