Preface 
IX 
He has spared no pains to help me, and I leave his work to speak for 
itself. He has also done four of the roe black and whites and three of 
the red deer. 
The happiest recollections that the stalker cherishes are certainly 
those of scenes and incidents, the poetry of which has been so perfectly 
expressed in the pictures of Sir Edwin Landseer. The naturalist, on the 
other hand, although he too may equally be influenced by the same 
considerations, is a grim realist, and will have, as a rule, naught but 
what actually exists to the cold scientific eye. No doubt the latter is 
right, horribly right, but then we cannot exist without the healthy 
sentiment of the other. All the artist can do is to maintain his own 
individuality and reconcile as far as possible the feelings and interests of 
both. 
J. G. MILLAIS. 
Horsham, May 1897. 
