CONTENTS— Continued xiii 



CHAPTER XXXIX — PAGE S3S 



The Great Dane: Buffon's Description — The True Descendant of the 

 Molossian Dog and the Alaunts — Illustrations from 1450 to 

 1750 — Height of the Early Danes, and Opinions of Gustav 

 Lang and Rawdon B. Lee — Francis Butler and Prince Shown 

 to Queen Victoria — Germans Introduce the Breed in America 

 — Prominent Show Dogs from 1880 to Date — ^The Leading 

 Large Dog of the Country — Desirable Points of Conformation — 

 Descriptive Particulars. 



chapter XL — PAGE 549 



The Mastiff: Meaning and Origin of the Name — French Mastiffs not 

 Connected Except by Name and Its Application — ^Van Dyck's 

 Large Dogs not Mastiffs — Caius's Description and Grouping 

 of Mastiffs — Bewick's Mastiff and Its Copies — The Baiting and 

 Fighting Mastiffs by Howitt — Landseer's Alpine Mastiff — Buffon's 

 Dogue de Fort Race — All Mastiff Pedigrees Trace Back to Danes, 

 Alpine and Thibet Mastiffs, and a Few Unknown of the Howitt 

 Type — Pedigree of Wallace's Turk and What It Leads Back to 

 — The Lynne Hall Mastiff — Luckey's Start, a Thibet Mastiff — 

 The Thompson Line Equally Vague — Crown Prince and His De- 

 scendants — The Breed in America, Its Popularity Twenty Years 

 Ago and Present Low Status — Standard and Scale of Points. 



CHAPTER XLI — PAGE 573 



The St. Bernard: What the Dog's Real Duties Are in the Alpine Passes 

 — ^A Much Mixed Race at the Hospice — Improvement First 

 Due to Swiss Breeders and Then to English Cultivation — ^The 

 Leasome Castle Mastiff or St. Bernard — Landseer's Dogs of 

 St. Gothard — Queen Victoria's St. Bernards — The Breed in 

 England — General Lafayette's Present of Dogs to J. F. 

 Skinner — ^The High-water Mark of the Sir Bedivere Period — 

 Present Status of the Breed — Standard and Scale of Points. 



chapter XLII — page 589 



Th^ Newfoundland: A Modern English Development from a Mixed 

 - Lot of Common Dogs of Various Colours, Coats and Sizes. 



chapter XLIII PAGE 593 



The Hound Family: Lieut-.Col. Hamilton Smith's Researches — Old Egyp- 

 ,tian and Assyrian Representations — Hunting Hounds in Couples 



