iv PREFACE 



his description of the Sporting Spaniels, to Lady Algernon 

 Gordon Lennox for her authoritative paragraphs on the 

 Pekinese, to Mr. Desmond O'Connell for his history of the 

 Fox-terrier, and to Mr. Walter S. Glynn, Mr. Fred Gresham, 

 Major J. H. Bailey, Mr. E. B. Joachim and other specialists 

 whose aid I have enlisted. 



In the following chapters the varieties of the dog are 

 classified in the order of (i) Non-Sporting and Utility 

 breeds, (2) Hounds, Gundogs and other Sporting breeds, 

 (3) the Terriers, (4) Toy and Miniature breeds. 



ROBERT LEIGHTON. 



