Rab and his friends / by John Brown.

  • John Brown
Date:
1883
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Rab and his friends / by John Brown. Source: Wellcome Collection.

    15/60
    NOTE. The grand old Dog by Sir George Harvey has been omitted in this edition. It was my fault that it ever appeared, for it was not Rab,—it is too leggy and gentlemanly. Rab was a cob of a Dog, and nothing of a gentleman. The head on the title-page by Douglas (Edwin the Second), with its alert ear, its air of “ Come on! ” is liker, though hardly big and formidable enough. The beautiful and pathetic piece by my friend George Reid is now given. It seems to me full of expression and gentle power. The desolate Jeems, Jess and the bewildered, cordial, old beast,—all three plodding dumbly, and with haste, through the snow, the dreary morn breaking over the sea. 23 Rutland Street, ‘60th October 1878. E
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