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of our furry friends, not. im any way 
interfering with the journals which 
chronicle their doings, but to endeavour 
to secure for them the recognition they 
deserve by encouraging the study of the 
numerous varieties, their habits and 
customs, them vices and virtues, their 
friends and their enemies. 
The pictures here reproduced from 
photos by Mr. Landor, the well-known 
cat photographer, will convince even 
the most hardened sceptic that there 
are cats to which the kitchen would 
be an insult. Hitherto the cat was 
popularly supposed to be an animal 
unworthy of the friendship of man and 
fit only for the companionship of old 
maids; fortunately these silly ideas are 
dying out, though they die hard as do 
all false traditions, let us hope the time 
is passed when cats were the despised and 
rejected of all domesticated animals. 
Ws 
“Dog SHows and Doggy People,’ 
? 
by 
Mi Ch Ee anes ke ZnS: 
a oo ee (Hutchinson), is a book 
which no dog-lover would 
care to be without. A more entertaining 
volume it would be hard to find. There 
are some 250 beautifully reproduced ilustra- 
tions, mostly from photographs taken 
specially for the work, and a great many 
well known people figure in its pages. 
CREAM PERSIAN CATS 
Owned by Mrs. Norris, of Kew. 
These two cats (whose parents were both winners of 
many prizes) have won first prizes at many shows. 
Animal Lite 
Photo by IT. Fall, Bak 
HER MAJESTY, QUEEN ALEXANDRA, 
With her champion ‘ Alix,” the Russian Wolf-Hound. and a 
Toy Pekinese Spaniel. 
Street. 
Added to its many other attractions must be 
mentioned it8 cheapness, for, ridiculous as 
it may sound, the price of the book is only 
12s. 6d. We reproduce as specimens of the 
illustrations photographs of Their Majesties 
the King and Queen, both 
with their favourite dogs. 
Another book which should 
certainly be mentioned in 
the first number of “ Animal 
Life” is “The Giant Fish 
of Florida,’ by J. Turner- 
Turner (Pearson). This is 
rather in the nature of a 
euide for sportsmen intending 
to hunt the big game of the 
sea. It is illustrated very 
profusely with some most 
remarkable photographs of 
which we reproduce a speci- 
men elsewhere in this number 
through the courtesy of the 
publishers. 
