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Is very similar to the Kennel Club deciding that black and tan toy spaniels 

 shall not be called King Charles spaniels, but be known by their colour. No 

 one thinks of calling them anything but King Charles spaniels; so in Ger- 

 many, the name of Deutsche dogge has prevailed for the Great Dane. 



Herr Lang, who stands in the front rank as an authority on matters 

 canine in Germany, stated in the letter referred to that the old dogs were no 

 larger than those of the time at which he was writing, and added, "the as- 

 sumed size of 36 inches only being given in untrustworthy pictures." Herr 

 Lang does not say anything further regarding the height of the German dogs, 

 but there must have been many very large dogs in Germany. Rawdon B. 

 Lee in his " Modern Dogs " tells of having measured all the largest dogs at 

 the Great Dane show at Ranelagh Club Grounds in 1885, Captain Graham 

 the Irish wolfhound exhibitor, assisting; and the tallest was Cedric the 

 Saxon, at 33^ inches; and he adds, " t was extraordinary how the 35 and 

 36-inch animals dwindled down, some of them nearly half a foot at a time." 



The subject of size is one that crops up from time to time, and it not in- 

 frequently happens that some old and perfectly unreliable statement is re- 

 surrected and passes for truth. One of this character refers to the dog, 

 Prince, owned at one time by Francis Butler of New York. Butler was a 

 man of education, an author of several books on dogs and two educational, 

 "The Spanish Speaker" and "The French Teacher." He seems to have 

 finally taken up the business of dog dealing exclusively, and one dog with 

 which he will always be associated was the Great Dane, Prince. This was 

 before our time in this country, but we had many talks about the dog with 

 the old coloured dog dealer "Dr." Gardner, who was Butler's factotum and 

 went with him to England when Prince was taken there for exhibition. We 

 believe Butler called Prince a Cuban bloodhound, but in his "Management 

 and Diseases of Dogs " (second edition, i860) the illustration is given as that 

 of a Siberian bloodhound. Old Gardner's memory was very clear as to the 

 dog and its history. Butler met a young German with the dog outside the 

 Astor House, and bought the giant. He was exhibited here, and Butler 

 then decided to take the dog abroad and Gardner went with him. Prince 

 seems to have created quite a furore in England, and Harrison Weir drew 

 him for the Illustrated London News, with Butler sitting behind the dog. 

 Butler was a large, handsome man according to old Gardner, and Weir did 

 him justice. The dog was taken to Windsor Castle to be shown to the 

 Queen. Gardner said that the Queen and a gentleman came out to see 



