PUBLISHERS' PEEFACE. 



For fifty years, " Stonehenge," by which name Mr. J. H. Walsh 

 is known In both Continents, has made the dog a constant study. 

 More than twenty years ago the Messrs Longman, of London, 

 selected him to revise Mr. Youatt's work. Since then his volumi- 

 nous writings in the " Field," and elsewhere, have revealed such 

 thorough knowledge of the subject as to constitute him the un- 

 disputed authority on all matters pertaining to the dog. Blaine, 

 Daniel, Hill, Mayhew, Richards, Youatt, and other authors, take 

 rank far below him, while '* Idstone," who, perhaps, stands next 

 to him, frankly alludes in his work to " Stonehenge " as " without 

 doubt the first of living authorities," " the most experienced and 

 scientific of writers," etc. He is so regarded to-day in America, 

 as well as in Europe. The writings on which *' Stonehenge's" 

 reputation and present popularity mainly rest are contained in the 

 two works " The Dog in Health and Disease," (1872), and " Tho 

 Dogs of the British Islands," (1878). The high cost of these works 



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