mTRODUCTORY. 



Every lover of the dog has hailed with lively satisfaction the 

 reproduction of Stonehenge's Great Works in the United States. 

 Mr. Walsh does not always express himself in the smoothest 

 terms, but what he writes is to the point. The reader feels that 

 he is explaining or advising what he knows to be true from actual 

 experience, that he can safely purchase one animal or administer 

 .medicine to another in accordance with his directions. The com- 

 position of his latest book, the " Dogs of the British Islands," shows 

 a marked improvement over that of "The Dog in Health and 

 Disease," though the directions for breedmg, rearing, etc., and for 

 the treatment of the diseases, are fuller and mor'i satisfactory in the 

 latter. The present volume very properly, therefore, combines de- 

 scriptions of dogs selected from both works, while the matter 

 pertaining to the breeding of dogs, management in disease, etc., is 

 eproduced almost bodily from Stonehenge's first book. The 

 Jlustrations are much the superior in the latest work, and are 

 therefore selected from that for reproduction. Portraits of 

 several well known American dogs are added. 



The rapidly increasing interest manifested in Dog Shows 

 bears evidence to the growing regard and care in the United States 

 for the canine species. Of all animals, the dog possesses the most 

 intelligence, and, with proper effort and training, can be educated 

 up to a point next to human. We have plenty of books on the 

 dog, but none furnishing the desired mformation and instruction 

 which are presented in Stonehenge's combined works. 



Time devoted to the animal creation is by no means lost. Kot 

 to speak of the practical results, it has an ameliorating effect upon 

 humanity. He who is kind to his brutes does not himself become 

 a brute. If the disposition to treat them with consideration is cul- 

 tivated, it is carried into his daily walk and conversation, with 

 humanity. He who practices profanity and physical abuse upon 

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