242 2/ie Scottish Naturalist. 



as the probable writer of the paper. A communication to her 

 — through the publisher of others of her works — forthwith 

 elicited the following acknowledgment of her authorship of 

 both the articles, that of the " Cornhill Magazine," as well as 

 that of the " Quarterly Review" : — 



"26 Hereford Square, London, S.W., 



' ' December 4, 1873. 



"Miss Cobbe is happy to answer Dr. Lauder Lindsay's inquiries. The 

 articles in the 'Quarterly Review,' and in the 'Cornhill Magazine,' re- 

 ferred to by Dr. Lindsay, are by Miss Cobbe, and she has no objection to 

 owning their authorship. 



' ' There is also an article from ' Fraser's Magazine, ' republished in Miss 

 Cobbe's Studies — Ethical and Social a — on 'The Rights of Man, and the 

 Claims of Brutes,' which may possibly have some interest for Dr. Lindsay. 



' ' The Confessions of a Lost Dog is not a pamphlet, but a child's book — 

 written for the Bazaar for the Dog's Home — and not worth Dr. Lindsay's 

 attention." 



The result is this, that everybody acquainted with Miss Cobbe 

 or her numerous writings, b will at once admit her competency 

 to observe and report on such a subject as the mental endow- 

 ments of the Dog; and will accept her Facts, and perhaps also 

 her inferences or opinions. Having carefully studied her two 

 articles — above mentioned, on the Dog — and knowing, as I do, 

 the character of her other published works, I can confidently 

 commend her panegyric on that animal to the attention of all 

 students of Mind in the Lower animals. 



Fortunately these two essays are easily and cheaply accessible; 

 for, last year Miss Cobbe threw aside her Anonymity, and re- 

 published the two papers in question (along with two others 

 that appeared originally in the " New Quarterly Magazine" for 

 March and October, 1874 — entitled respectively "Animals hx 



a " Studies on Subjects New and Old — Ethical and Social" : reprinted 

 from "Fraser's Magazine." London, post 8vo., 1S65. Chapter on "The 

 Rights of Man, and the Claims of Brutes. " 



b These writings — so far as they relate to the mental faculties of animals — 

 include: — (1) Minor articles — such as that on "Instinct and Reason" in 

 the "Animal World," vol. i, p. 40: (2) Reprints of Major contributions 

 such as : — " Darwinism in Morals and other Essays" : — from the Theological 

 and Fortnightly Reviews, and from Fraser's, Macmillau's, and other 

 Magazines. London: 1872. 



The most noteworthy chapter in the latter work relative to our present 

 subject, is that on "The Evolution of Morals and Religion." 



