All about Dogs. A Book for Doggy People. 

 By Charles Henry Lane, Breeder, Exhibit- 

 or, Judge. With eighty-seven illustrations 

 of the most celebrated Champions of our 

 time. Drawn from life by R. H. Moore. 

 John Lane. 1900. Large 8vo, pp. 400. 

 People who like dogs will like this book; 

 it is the utterance of one who speaks with 

 authority and unction on a subject with 

 which he is fully identified. Long experi- 

 ence in raising, training, exhibiting, and 

 judging give Mr. Lane's opinions so much 

 weight that he will undoubtedly be ranked 

 as a classic by those for whom he writes. 

 And of a certainty he will seriously object 

 to the ordering of things for his 

 happiness in a future world if dogs 

 be not allowed there. The work is 

 done by an Englishman for Englishmen; it 

 deals with few of the New World types, Es- 

 kimo, Newfoundland, and Boston Terrier, 

 yet there is no reason why it should not 

 meet with warm approval on this side of the 

 Atlantic, English setting and style not be- 

 ing generally regarded with disfavor, with- 

 out mentioning that in his career as a judge 

 the author has had the honor of judging dogs 

 for all the royal family, her Majesty, the 

 Princesses, and the Prince, which in some 

 quarters will enhance the attractiveness, of 

 course. The races worthy of a place here are 

 carefully selected; only the more aristocratic 

 dogs look out upon us from these pages. 

 They are gathered by an amateur, a dog- 

 fancier, not a scientist, but an expert in his 

 line, and thorough enough within his limits. 

 The points of the different breeds are set 

 out in excellent order. Any one may im- 

 prove his ideas of the best of dogs by means 

 of the clean and animated descriptions, the 

 exhibition gossip, the entertaining stories, 

 and the numerous fine illustrations — all 

 so filled with interest as to dissipate the 

 disagreeable memories frequently associated 

 with our friends the dogs — the whining, the 

 yelping, the snarling, the fighting, and the 

 smells of the dog-show or the kennels. Less 

 dogginess and loudness on cover and title- 

 page would diminish the opportunities for 

 criticism of this very fair example of the 

 book-maker's art. 



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