PREFACE TO THE SECOND 

 EDITION. 



THE kindness with which " Dog Stories 

 from the Spectator" has been received by 

 the public, has made it necessary to issue a 

 second edition. This affords me an oppor- 

 tunity of including some further examples of 

 intelligence in dogs which have appeared in 

 the Spectator since the formation of the 

 original collection. Some of these new 

 stories, it will I think be agreed, are quite 

 as good as any of those previously published. 

 Of very special interest are the anecdotes 

 which I have placed together under the title 

 of " Dogs and Human Speech." If we accept 

 these stories as trustworthy, they seem to 

 ieave little doubt that many dogs are very 

 far advanced in the understanding of human 

 language. If, however, we reject this, the 



