Viii CONTENTS— Continued 



Broken Tail a Deformity — ^Weight is Now the Prominent Ques- 

 tion — Mr. H. Tatnall Brown on the Four Prominent Sires — ^A 

 Standard for Present-day Type. 



CHAPTER XXXIX — PAGE 535 



The Great Dane: Buffon's Description — ^The True Descendant of the 

 Molossian Dog and the Alaunts — Illustrations From 1450 to 1750 

 — Height of the Early Danes, and Opinions of Gustav Lang and 

 Rawdon B. Lee — Francis Butler and Prince Shown to Queen 

 Victoria — Germans Introduce the Breed in America — Prominent 

 Show Dogs From 1880 to Date — ^The Leading Large Dog of the 

 Country — Desirable Points of Conformation — Descriptive Par- 

 ticulars. 



chapter XL — PAGE 549 



The Mastiff: Meaning and Origin of the Name — French Mastins Not 

 Connected Except by Name and its Application — ^Van Dyck's 

 Large Dogs Not Mastiffs — Caius's Description and Grouping 

 of Mastiffs — Bewick's Mastiff and its Copies — ^The Baiting and 

 Fighting Mastiffs by Howitt — Landseer's Alpine Mastiff — Buffon's 

 Dogue de Forte Race — ^All Mastiff Pedigrees Trace Back to Danes, 

 Alpine and Thibet Mastiffs, and a Few Unknown of the Howitt 

 Type — Pedigree of Wallace's Turk and What it Leads Back to — 

 The Lynne Hall Mastiff— Luckey's Start, a Thibet Mastiff— The 

 Thompson Line Equally Vague — Crown Prince and His Descen- 

 dants — ^The Breed in America, its Popularity Twenty Years Ago 

 and Present Low Status — Standard and Scale of Points. 



chapter XLI — PAGE 573 



The St. Bernard: What the Dog's Real Duties Are in the Alpine Passes 

 — ^A Much Mixed Race at the Hospice — Improvement First Due 

 to Swiss Breeders and Then to English Cultivation — ^The Lea- 

 some Castle Mastiff or St. Bernard — ^Landseer's Dogs of St. 

 Gothard — Queen Victoria's St. Bernards — ^The Breed in England 

 — General Lafayette's Present of Dogs to J. F. Skinner — ^The 

 High-water Mark of the Sir Bedivere Period — Present Status of 

 the Breed — Standard and Scale of Points. 



chapter XLII — page 589 



The Newfoundland: A Modern English Development From a Mixed 

 Lot of Common Dogs of Various Colours, Coats and Sizes. 



