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PREFACE. 



THIS, I believe, is the first occasion upon which a 

 volume has been published dealing entirely with the 

 Terriers. Of late years these little dogs have come 

 very much to the front, and, if no new varieties have 

 recently been established, many of the older ones 

 are much more popular at the present time than 

 has previously been the case since the first history 

 of the canine race was written. 



As in my preceding volumes, the illustrations must 

 be taken as typical of what they represent, and not 

 as portraits, although the drawings are from living 

 specimens, or from the best photographs of such 

 to be obtained. With the exception of the Bull 

 Terriers, which are from a drawing by R. H. Moore, 

 the whole of the illustrations are from the pencil 

 of Arthur Wardle, who has done so well for me on 



