dogs that I now propose to speak. Nobody 

 must suspect me of wishing to wrong cats 

 and others if I reserve them for a later 

 section. 



%& I read the other day in my favourite 

 evening paper a notice of a booklet purport- 

 ing to give an account of a variety of dog 

 hitherto, it appeared, little known in England. 

 I learnt that this dog was distantly related to 

 the Newfoundland, that he was brown in 

 colour, that his head was of certain dimen- 

 sions, that his eyes were of a yellowish tint, 

 that he stood so many inches at the shoulder, 

 together with various notes as to the shape 

 and size of his body and limbs. Beyond that 

 there was nothing nothing about his little 

 tricks of manner and bearing, nothing about 

 his bark, his courtesy, his genius for friend- 

 ship and devotion nothing, in short, about 

 any of the glorious qualities that make up a 

 dog's soul and endear him to his human col- 

 league. It was a show-bench article, much 

 like the lists of points with their percentages 



