446 Modern Dogs. 



excels all others for making an off-cross, and drafts 

 from here are often on sale during the season at 

 Aldridge's. 



The Dukes of Portland, Newcastle, and West- 

 minster own the kennels that are most popularly 

 known, and, although they have not been kept up to 

 date so far as appearance is concerned, greater 

 pains, I believe, are now being taken to make an 

 improvement in size, bone, and head properties, 

 the latter being where almost all the strains fail. 

 An exception, however, may be made to the dogs 

 kept for many years by Mr. H. H. Holmes, of 

 Lancaster. All his dogs are particularly good in 

 head, and if they are wrong at all in this particular, 

 they have an inclination to be too short, and so 

 become rather sour in expression. These dogs are 

 also excellent in colour and bone, indeed, as far as 

 bench properties go, are the best of all, as the 

 successes of his Tower, John o' Gaunt, Hotpot, and 

 others will testify. This is an extremely valuable 

 strain to use where the modern failing is so predomi- 

 nant. 



Lord Derby's dogs have been alluded to. The 

 Earl Spencer, at Althorp, Northamptonshire^ 'and 

 Lord Clinton Hope, at Deep Deenes, Surrey, have 

 both excellent teams, the latter mostly of the strain 

 obtained from Mr. J. T. Hincks, of Leicester, who 



