CONTENTS— Co«//««^^ . ix 



CHAPTER XLIII — PAGE 593 



The Hound Family: Lieut.-Col. Hamilton Smith's Researcnes — Old 

 Egyptian and Assyrian Representations — Hunting Hounds in 

 Couples — BufFon and the French Matin — ^The Origin of the Name 

 of Greyhound — Harrier a General Term for Scenting Hounds — 

 Brach and its Synonyms — ^The Beagle Not the Gazehound — 

 Bloodhounds and Timers — ^The St. Huberts and Their Probable 

 Connection With the Bassets. 



CHAPTER XLIV — PAGE 603 



The Scotch Deerhound: Taylor's Description of Red Deer Hunting 

 in the Highlands — ^The Glengarry Crosses — Size Not a Requisite 

 in the Deerhound — Colonel Thayer's Chieftain and Wanda — 

 The Modern Deerhound. 



CHAPTER XLV — PAGE 609 



The Irish Wolfhound: Early Illustrations Lean to a Smooth Dog of 

 Great Dane Type — ^The Earl of Arundel's Hound Painted by 

 Rubens — Similants to the Mastin Type Painted by Snyders — 

 Exaggerations Regarding Size — Richardson's Estimate Exploded — 

 The Building up of the Present Breed and the Adopted Standard. 



CHAPTER XLVI — PAGE 617 



The Greyhound: A Product of Breeding With a Definite Object — ^The 

 Breed Name a Very General English Term for Racing Dogs of 

 Various Countries — ^The Small Continental Greyhounds — Grey- 

 hounds — Greyhounds in Queen Elizabeth's Time — Coursing 

 before the Adoption of the Duke of Norfolk's Rules — Lord 

 Orford the Promoter of Modern Coursing — Sir Walter Scott's 

 Love of the Sport — ^The Greyhound in America — Standard and 

 Scale of Points. 



CHAPTER XLVII — PAGE 627 



The Whippet: A Product of the Sporting Tendencies of Yorkshire 

 and Lancashire Workmen — ^Teaching the Whippet to Race — 

 System of Handicapping — Efforts to Advance Whippet Racing. 



CHAPTER XLVIII — PAGE 629 



The Russian Wolfhound : A Breed Illustrated as a Russian Hound About 

 1750 — Closely Allied to the Persian and Turkish Greyhound — 

 Origin of Our Title of Russian Wolfhound — Russian Method of 

 Hunting the Wolf — Descriptive Particulars and Scale of Points. 



