53 Modern Dogs. 



Although some of our best dogs are accepted by 

 German authorities as excellent specimens, still our 

 British breeders have in a degree struck out a line of 

 their own, and where, on the Continent at any rate, 

 two varieties were acknowledged, the hound type 

 and the terrier type, here a happy medium has been 

 struck, and the handsome dog now seen on our 

 show benches is the result. I have a large 

 amount of information as to the work and general 

 description of the quaint little dog as he is seen in 

 Germany, and where he divides national favouritism 

 with the Great Dane, but I fancy, in a book 

 dealing with British dogs alone (and those that 

 we have made such by fancy or manipulation) it 

 will be best not to trespass on foreign ground. 

 The Germans especially do well by their favourite 

 dog, and the Dachshund Stud Book published by 

 them is certainly, for completeness and tasteful 

 elaboration, ahead of anything we publish in this 

 country. As an instance of what is done in this 

 particular, it may be mentioned that where the dog 

 alluded to is red in colour, particulars of him are 

 printed in red ink, and where he is black and tan 

 the usual black ink is used. The same arrangement 

 applies to the portraits of dogs, with which the 

 pages of this Stud Book are thickly interspersed. 



Some twenty years ago Herr Beckmann, one of 



