[6] Some days before the death of Millet, a stag was chased by hunters and dogs into a neighbour’s garden and butchered before the dying man’s gaze. ‘I take it as an omen,’ he said mournfully, and prepared for the earth-end.
[7] Esther i. 6.
[8] I have seen this picture since writing these remarks, but without changing my opinion concerning it.
[9] As a worker of broad effects, I lay myself open to be charged with bigotry when I condemn the pre-Raphaelites, and accept the risk.
[10] See Life and Nature Studies.
[11] I called attention to the marvellous medicinal virtues of this Eucalyptus-tree long before it was generally accepted by the Faculty. See ‘Picturesque Australasia’ and ‘A Colonial Tramp,’ &c.
[12] See ‘A New Guinea Village,’ p. 125.
[13] See Frontispiece: ‘A New Zealand Fern Gully.’
[14] See also A Treatise on Wood Engraving, by Chatto & Jackson, p. 46.
[15] The same excuse applies to this present work.