FRENCH AND OTHER CONTINENTAL HOUNDS. 
a white collar and white feet and tail tip. 
The maximum height is 20 inches, and the 
weight about 58 lb. 
Some of the Continental hounds would not 
readily be recognised as such by English 
sportsmen. The Bosnian Brack, as an 
instance, might almost be mistaken for a 
sheep-dog. It is wire-haired, and about the 
size of a Collie, generally red or brown, or 
white with yellow or red patches. They 
have a good Foxhound in Norway, in 
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the sport. They cannot all be mentioned 
here, and readers desiring technical informa- 
tion concerning them may be referred to 
Count Henry de Bylandt’s valuable and 
exhaustive volumes.* 
For large and savage game, such as the 
wild boar, the bear and the wolf, more 
powerful hounds are, of course, required, 
and in all European countries where these 
dangerous animals are the frequent quarry, 
dogs have been selected and adapted. 
Many of them are of very ancient type. 
The Wolfhound of Albania, for 
example, which is still used to protect 
the flocks, was known to the Greeks 
in the time of Alexander the Great. 
Pliny is the authority for the exag- 
gerated story that when Alexander 
was on his way to India the King 
of Albania gave him one of these 
dogs. It was of great size, and 
Alexander, delighted at its evident 
strength, commanded that bears, 
boars, and stags should in turn be 
slipped to it. When this was done, 
RUSSIAN HOUND KASTROMSKA. ~ 
PROPERTY OF M. J. REVAL, MOHILEW. 
Sweden, in Finland, even in Livonia and 
Lithuania, and travellers among the Alps 
will have noticed the workmanlike little 
hound of the Swiss valleys, and its elegant, 
large-eared neighbour of Lucerne. They 
may also have observed the Bruno, which 
variety is the heaviest of the Swiss hounds, 
short-legged, and long in the couplings, with 
a long, sharp muzzle and pendulous ears, 
which, with its yellow-brown self-colouring, 
give it the appearance of a large and leggy 
Dachshund. The Dachsbrack, by the way, 
is not to be confused with the smaller 
Dachshund familiar to English fanciers. 
It is taller—often 316 inches high—heavier, 
and stands on long, straight legs. There 
are many excellent packs of these useful 
little Bracks in Germany. 
In all European countries where sports- 
men hunt the fox, the stag, and the hare, 
there are packs of hounds suited to the 
manner of the chase and the conditions of 
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the hound regarded these animals 
with calm contempt, whereupon 
Alexander, ‘‘ because his noble 
spirit was roused,” ordered the 
dog to be slain. The Albanian king, hearing 
of this, sent another dog, with the warning 
that it was useless to try a hound so 
redoubtable with small and__insigni- 
ficant game, but 
with lions and 
elephants, which 
were more worthy 
quarry. A lion was 
then slipped and 
the hound rose to 
the attack, and 
speedily proved 
himself equal to 
the occasion. The 
elephant gave him a severer task, but was 
finally laid low. 
The Albanian Wolfhound is seldom seen 
out of its native land, but one was brought 
to these islands some years ago, and became 
ALBANIAN WOLFHOUND. 
FROM AN ANTIQUE GREEK VASE. 
* “Tes Races de Chiens.” Par Comte H. de 
Bylandt, 2 vols., 1905. 
