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Title: American painters: with eighty-three examples of their work engraved on wood
Year: 1879 (1870s)
Authors: Sheldon, George William, 1843-1914
Subjects: Painters Painting, American
Publisher: New York : D. Appleton and company
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
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t acquaintance than one thatwill merely accept the homage of a crowd of admirers with lazy content.Cats, however, are frequently unjustly accused of indifference and absence ofaffection. Among the better kind of them, it is not so much that they haveno affection as that they disdain to show it except on rare occasions. In casesof illness they have been known to wait for hours outside the sufferers room (with somewhat of the emotions of the dog-mourners in the picture by Mr.Beard which we have engraved), and to refuse all comfort until theyare admitted to learn for themselves how things are progressing. No doubtcats are less constant in their friendship than dogs, less ready to make a newacquaintance, and less willing to admit persons outside their own family cir-cle to their friendship. In this matter dogs of any fine intellect are singu-larly gracious. We have the honor of knowing a Skye terrier and a Pomera-nian whose recollection of a former friendship of some mouths is so constant
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J. APPLETON BROWN. 117 that, no matter whether a day or a year intervene between our meetings, weare always received with expressions of delight, which in both cases are al-most hysterical, and in that of the Pomeranian threaten to bring on a fit. We have the honor of knowing a Skye terrier, that, we should say, is, asfar as it goes, an exact transcript of Mr. Beards views. There are persons, however, both writers and painters, who recognize in acats or dogs nature something distinct and generically different from theirown. When writing about the finest of these animals, they take care to de-scribe them as not human, and to draw the lines of definition. When paint-ing them they delineate dog and cat life, dogs and cats faces, but disdain evento suggest a human relationship. They believe, in the first place, that a beastsnature is essentially different from a mans; and, in the second place, that toconfound the two would be inartistic as well as untrue—inartistic, because inviolation

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