x Preface 



Whenever possible I have obtained reliable portraits 

 of the people sketched, and of some of their dogs, which I 

 think will have an additional attraction to those who do 

 me the honour to read the book, the shortcomings of which 

 are frankly acknowledged by the writer, who, however, has 

 spared no pains to verify the facts and avoid exaggeration 

 in the subjects dealt with. 



I may candidly say that a main inducement to write 

 this book was the widespread popularity of my late book, 

 which was, literally, All about Dogs, as I tried to comply 

 with its title from first to last. In this connection I wish 

 to gratefully recognise the very kind reception given to it 

 by the Press, almost without exception. 



On the present occasion the great difficulty has been 

 to limit its extent^ as the shows I wished to mention are 

 so numerous and important, and there are so many Doggy 

 People I should like to bring in and say something about, 

 that, although it has taken much more time, and grown into 

 a much larger book than I intended, I have not been able 

 to mention nearly so many shows or people as I wished. 



Perhaps, if circumstances permit both the shows and the 

 sketches of some more of my friends amongst Doggy People 

 may be continued at some future time. 



