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devoted to that kind of literature, and know a bull-terrier 

 from a fox-terrier, or don't call a deerhound a stagbouud, 



Why, I just this moment sent a messenger to the Bohemian 

 Club to borrow for five minutes its copy of your paper (or one 

 devoted to similar subjects), my own 'having been lost, and 

 the response came back'to me, "They are not taken any more, 

 no readers." I was amazed, because from the luminous pages 

 of Forest and Stream I derive not only pleasure and amuse- 

 ment, but profit and instruction on many subjects linked with 

 outdoor life, and which "greater than me" can afford to 

 peruse. Why, your columns on natural history alone are 

 worthy of the scholar's study. I never spent a couple of horn's 

 over the "North American Review," or -'Macauley's Essay's," 

 or "Baxter's Saint's Rest," or the endless accounts of un- 

 quenchable and incomprehensible "Shiloh," that I didn't want 

 to woo recreation and comfort in the pages which tell me, as 

 well as do yours, of sports aflood and afield . I think it is Bal- 

 zac who says, "If those who are the enemies of manly sports 

 had the direction of the world, they would take away the 

 spring and youth— the former from the year and the latter 

 from human life." 

 But I am wandering, and only intended sending you a few 

 " of kindly greeting. I hope we will have a bench show 

 and that a judge or judges from the East will be re- 

 ested to visit us. The fact is, people who have been living 

 Jere for the past five and twenty or even for the last ten 

 years without crossing the Sierras, have no idea how great an 

 improvement there has been in all breeds of dogs, and unless 

 they have very recently paid visits to the Westminster Ken- 

 nel Club show, or some other of equal fame, their knowledge 

 of dogs and dog lore cannot be valuable, to say the least, and 

 their judgment as to points must have fallen into "innocuous 

 desuetude." Stuart Taylor. 



San Francisco, April 1. 



THE NEW YORK SHOW. 



THE tenth annual dog show, under the mangement of the 

 Westminster Kennel Club, opened in this city on Tuesday 

 last and closed Friday night. It was held at the Madison Square 

 Garden, a place better suited to the purpose than any other 

 that we know of in this couutry, for there is always room in 

 it. and it is alwavs light and well ventilated. 



The show was excellently managed. The dogs were benched 

 in the usual fashion, and were kept well provided with clean 

 straw and fresh water. Their comfort was well looked after. 

 They were fed on Spratts Patent biscuit. On one point the 

 management was open to very severe criticism, and much 

 annovance was caused by, and complaint made of, the order 

 in which the dogs were benched. Exhibitors were allowed to 

 place all their dogs together no matter what the classes to 

 which the diff eren t animals belonged. Thus in looking through 

 what he supposed to be a certain class, the visitor would sud- 

 denly come upon dogs of a different class, and would find the 

 numbers running in most eccentric and unexpected fashion, 

 to his utter bewilderment. This method has to recommend 

 it only the fact that it saves a keeper a few steps in caring for 

 the animals, and that it pleases the owner, who likes to see 

 his dogs together. The men whose duty it is to take the 

 animals into the judging ring suffer, however, and the reporters 

 who also have to find the dogs, and above all the intelligent 

 visitor, who desires to compare certain dogs in the class, is 

 greatly inconvenienced by the confusion. This sort of thing 

 should not be tolerated. The dogs should be benched in order, 

 the classes and the numbers following one another in regular 

 rotation. With the exception of this unfortunate, mistake, 

 the management was very creditable, and Mr. Mortimer is 

 entitled to high praise for his share in it. The first three days 

 of the show were pleasant, but on Friday it rained, which 

 somewhat cut down the attendance of that day. On the 

 whole, however, the attendance was fair, and many well 

 known New Yorkers dropped into the show every day. 



The quality of the different classes varied greatly, as, will 

 be seen from our remarks on the dogs. Some of the classes 

 which are usually best were this year quite ordinary, and 

 others, which are usually poor, were much above average. 



We regret to have to speak of the judging, which was, on 

 the whole, the worst which we have ever seen at a dog show, 

 and created almost universal dissatisfaction. The trouble be- 

 gan with the printing of the catalogue, in which Mi*. Kirk 

 was given as the judge, among other classes, for mastiffs and 

 St. Bernards, while the fact is that Dr. Perry judged the 

 former, and Mr. Tucker the latter. Mr. Kirk was very unfor- 

 tunate in many of his decisions, though it was plead in his be- 

 half that too many olasses had been assigned to him, and that 

 he was obliged to hurry through them in one day in order to 

 return home. This excuse, however, gave no special relief to 

 the exhibitors. Mr. Tracy made terrible work with the point- 

 ers, and Dr. Perry was unfortunate with his mastiffs. The 

 setter judging, with one or two exceptions, was fairly satis- 

 factory, the collies and fox-terriers the same, and the St. Ber- 

 nards were well handled ; but the miscellaneous class w T as judged 

 in most extraordinary fashion. It was the opinion among 

 those best qualified to judge that very many of the classes 

 were slaughtered. There were a great many sales at the 

 show, among them several champions. Robert le Diable is 

 said to have brought S800, Molly Bawn £400 ; Trix's price is 

 confidential. 



COMPARATIVE TABLE OF ENTRIES. 



Mastiffs 



St. Bernards 



Berghunde 



Newfoundlands 



Greyhounds 



Deerhounds 



Poiuters 



English setters 



Black and tan setters 



Irish setters 



Chesapeake Bay dogs . . . 



Irish water spaniels 



Fieli spaniels 



Cocker spaniels 



Foxhounds 



Basset hounds 



Dachshund e 



Fox-terriers 



Collies 



Bulldogs 



Bull-terxiers 



Skye terriers 



Irish terriers 



Rough terriers 



Black and tans 



Dandie Dinnaonts 



Bedlington terriers 



Yorkshire terriers 



Toy terriers 



£ U K S 



Toy spaniels 



Italian greyhounds 



Poodles , 



Miscellaneous 



Retriever3 



Great Danes 



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1881 



1882 



18*3 



1684 



1885 



1886 



26 



18 



20 



36 



24 



36 



01 



40 



42 



44 



17 



16 



14 



33 



24 



62 



64 



97 



73 



92 













8 



5 



5 





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13 



20 



25 



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20 



8 



15 



17 



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18 



23 



15 



15 



28 



28 



20 



16 



19 



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7 



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11 



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83 



138 



134 



125 



144 



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149 



100 



96 



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235 



160 



172 



159 



150 



77 



103 



65 



64 



73 



74 



91 



58 



56 



53 



36 



38 



149 



108 



168 



135 



97 



99 



97 



105 



84 



67 















7 



3 



4 



1 



11 



17 



8 



7 



10 



IT 



8 



3 



1 



1 



32 



18 



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41 



43 



56 



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13 



20 



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31 



39 



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22 



26 



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19 



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35 



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63 



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56 



78 



50 



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72 



85 



103 



10 



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15 



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23 



20 



17 



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29 



36 



34 



23 



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9 



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3 



3 



6 



5 



6 



4 



3 



6 



3 

















3 



6 



7 





89 



36 



26 



30 



18 



22 



35 



80 



19 



si 



12 



9 



18 





10 



10 



11 



13 



8 



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80 



23 



33 



23 



32 



40 



47 



81 



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15 



10 



15 



16 



29 



6 



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We give below a detailed account of the dogs and the judg- 

 ing: 



MA STIFFS — (DR. PERRY). 



The quality of these classes was not quite so good as it was 

 last year, and, as usual, the best specimens exhibited were 

 bred in England. With first-class stock at their disposal, 

 American breeders should succeed in producing better specil 



mens than Homer and Boss. Of the puppies exhibited this 

 year none will equal in good looks the dogs just named, and 

 this looks as if there was something wrong. With this bint, to 

 the mastiir breeders we pass to the dogs themselves. Homer, 

 Prussian Princess and Rosalind in the champion classes were 

 in good conditiou. The open dog class contained fourteen 

 entries, and the quality was above the average. With the 

 champion dogs to set the type, Dr. Perry should not have 

 made any bad mistakes, but he was not fortunate in his 

 selections. He did not award prizes to poor dogs, but he did 

 not keep to type, and several of the dogs selected for leading- 

 positions cannot possibly be first-rate if others, such as Prus- 

 sian Princess, Rosalind and Lady Gladys are of correct type, 

 as we believe they are. Baby, placed first, has few good 

 points, and we can assure those who regard him as a crack 

 that they are woefully mistaken. He is a dog of fan- size, 

 stands well on Ms legs and is a good mover. This is all that 

 can be said in his favor. His muzzle is too long and lacks in 

 width; his skull, too, is faulty, and his ears are too big. He 

 stands too high on the legs, is very light in bone and faulty 

 in feet, and there is a lack of substance all through him. 

 Add to these faults a rather houndy expression and our readers 

 have a truthful description of Baby; vhc. was his place. 

 Boss, placed second, is a more massive and better-boned speci- 

 men than Baby, and after cuttiug him for his faulty muzzle 

 and expression, there would be left several points in his favor. 

 We would have placed him third. Ilford Caution, third prize, 

 should have scored rather an easy win. Pharoah, he, should 

 have been second. He is not a big dog, but shows more true 

 mastiff character than either Baby or Boss. He is above the 

 average in head, aud is a well-formed clog of good substance 

 and bone. His eyes are rather light and his ears are too large. 

 Vulcan, vhc, is long in coat and faulty in head; a c. card 

 would have been quite sufficient for him in this class. Bis- 

 marck, c, is a very poor specimen; he is very faulty in head 

 and feet, and shows little character. Dictator, he, although 

 small is of good type and deserved his card. Hector, c, 

 is a better dog than either Vulcan, Bismarck or Jag. The 

 last named is faulty at both ends. Lady Gladys showed far 

 more character than auy thing in the bitch class. This is a 

 good specimen. She has a better skull than any bitch in 

 America, has a good frame, plenty of substance, and a fair 

 amount of bone. She is faulty from the hips down, and 

 would be improved by more depth of muzzle, Ilford Cam- 

 bria, second prize, is too long in face, and is light in bone 

 and faulty in feet. She is a big bitch and has a good 

 body. We would have placed her third. Hilda V, vhc. 

 and" reserve, was our choice for second place. This bitch 

 is well known. Regina, third prize, is faulty in head, 

 vhc. was her place. Venice, c. , is too long in face. Lorna, o, 

 is houndy in head, heavy in ears, crooked in forelegs, and 

 she lacks character. Queen II., well known, was our choice 

 for the reserve card, and we thought it a very close thing 

 between her and Ilford Cambria for third place. Dog puppies 

 were not a good lot. Sir Roderick, placed first, scored an 

 easy win; he is faulty in muzzle and lacks in volume of skull. 

 Ajax, second prize, will never make a good one; be is long in 

 head, domed in skull, and has a bad tail. The bitches, although 

 not a good class, were better than the dogs. Lady Florence, 

 first prize, and Regina II., second prize, are faulty in head. 

 The other entries are not snow dogs and commendation cards 

 were withheld. 



ST. BERNARDS— (MR. TUCKER). 



The quality of these classes was about the same as at last 

 year's exhibition, and the dogs were nicely handled by Mr. 

 Tucker, who made quite a favorable impression as a judge. 

 Duke of Leeds, well shown, had no difficulty in beating Otho 

 for the champion prize for rough-coated dogs, and Miranda, 

 in the corresponding bitch class, scored a rather easy victory 

 over Mr. Hearn's old favorite Gertie. These dogs are too well 

 known to requ ; re further comment. Of the seventeen entries 

 in the open dog class Merchant Prince was much the best, and 

 Bosco 11. was well placed second. Courage II. and Rudolph 

 H. came next. The former, in better shape than his opponent, 

 was rightly placed third,but we think Rudolph a trifle the better 

 dog. A full description of these dogs may be found in our report 

 of the Newark show. Nero (Ehrich's), vhc, is faulty in head, 

 and the same may be said of Schoonoven, he, and Barney, vhc. 

 The latter is good in bone. Og, vhc, is a fairly good dog, 

 not very strong in any point and not very bad. Prince Leo- 

 pold, vhc, whose good looks were overlooked at Newark, 

 well deserved his vhc. card, but Duke, c, was rather fortun- 

 ate in receiving mention. He is faulty in head, ears and tail 

 and shows little St. Bernard character. The ten bitches en- 

 tered did not make a very strong class. Lady Athol, too long 

 in face and light of bone, made a good first, and St. Bride, 

 faulty in head and out of condition, was just about second 

 best, although she was closely pressed by Margery, whose 

 color is against her. Sheila, described in our Newark report, 

 was vhc. Lady Clyde, vhc , lacks character and her color is 

 not good, still she was in her right place. In the champion 

 class for smooth-coated dogs Don II,, in good condition, easily 

 beat Verone. He was' very badly shown. Both are well 

 known, the former being the better dog. The magnificent 

 Leila was alone in the bitch class. In the open dog class it 

 was a close thing between St. Botolph and Hector, the latter 

 rather better in head aud with youth on his side,was properly 

 placed first. Cora, third, is cheeky, faulty in ears and straight 

 behind. Trust, vhc, gets worse in head as he gets older. 

 Barkis, vhc. , is faulty at both ends and so is Berg, vhc, in 

 addition to being light in bone and bad in feet. Pluto, c, is 

 leggy, light and faulty in expression. Flora II. was the best of 

 six bitches and Belle of Stirling, faulty in head, was rightly 

 placed second. Alma II., of good type, but small and faulty 

 behind, was third best. Tony, vhc. , has bad shoulders and is 

 light in limb, cheeky and small. She shows character. The 

 puppies were a poor lot and nobody sems able to breed a dog 

 that can approach in goodlooks the imported stock. Barry, first, 

 was the best of the rough-coated dogs; his best points are his 

 coat and color. He is faulty in head and eyes. The second 

 prize winner (three months old) lacks character. Byron, third 

 prize, was absent when we called on him. Hero, vhc, is 

 faulty in head and color. St. Tripbon, c, has a very poor 

 head and shows little character. Carlos, he, is very faulty in 

 head and ears. The two last-named were hardly worthy of 

 notice. The three bitches were a very seedy lot. Lucy, first 

 prize, is faulty in head and is very light in limbs. Gipsy, sec- 

 ond prize, is of poor color and has a bad head. Use, vhc, has 

 a most peculiar head. She is very short in skull and too long 

 by half in muzzle. We would have withheld the prizes in 

 this class. The smooth-coated dogs were little better than 

 their rough-coated brethren. In the dog class, Cardinal, 

 faulty in head, ears and expression, was placed over Leo. 

 Here we cannot agree with the judge, for although Leo is but 

 three months old and Cardinal eleven months, the youngster 

 shows far more character and is better in head, bone, color 

 and markings. Noble II., vhc, is not worth a card in any 

 company; he has a very bad head. Cryl, first in the bitch 

 class, is only moderate, and Queen of Sheba is not likely to be 

 heard from at f uture shows. Mr. Haines showed some fairly 

 good specimens in the puppy classes, but they were not ex- 

 hibited for competition, 



NEWFOUNDLANDS — (MR. KIRK). 



With the exception of the first and second prize winners, the 

 class was very poor. Bruno, placed first, has the best of 

 Major in size and none, but the latter is of better type and is 

 much better than Bruno in coat, tail and body, and is quite 

 his equal in head and ears. Rocks, vhc. , is faulty in head, 

 eyes and ears. Juno H., he, is faulty in head, coat and eyes; 

 she is too 3mall. Guy, c, is faulty in head, eyes and coat. 



. GREAT DANES— (MR KIRK). 



The best class we have seen at New York. Tiger, first prize, 

 is much above the average in head, size and limbs, and is a 



good-looking dog. Bismarck, secoud prize, is of fair size, but 

 his head is not nearly so good as the winner's. Cafe'-au-lait, 

 he, was third best. Tigress, vhc. is a fairly good puppy, but 

 she. is much too loug and flat in loin, and her feet are faulty. 

 Hector, c, is too' small for a show dog. Nero, he, and 

 Jumbo, vhc, are faulty in bead and expression. We did not. 

 see them off the bench, and they may have had faults that 

 escaped our attention. 



GREYHOUNDS— (MR. KIRK), 



There were 24 entries in these classes, and the average qual- 

 ity was about the same as at the other spring shows. The 

 two champions, Memnon and Mother Demdike, were in 

 wretched conditiou, and had w*e been the judge we would 

 have disqualified both. Harlequin scored a veiy easy win in 

 the open dog class, and second prize should have been with- 

 held for want of merit. Joe Jumper, placed second, has 

 wretched head and ears, is very straight behind and heavy 

 in neck. He is a big coarse dog, sadly deficient in grey- 

 hound points. Rajah; vhc, aud Rawhe, he, are not show 

 dogs, but thoy are better specimens than Joe Jumper. 

 Louisette, a black bitch, shown in elegant condition, was 

 first in the next class. She is very faulty before the 

 eyes, straight behind, and too long from the hocks 

 down; she is too stout in body for her strength of limbs, and 

 we would have placed her second. Juno, second prize, is a 

 very poor specimen, scarcely worth a commended card; she 

 is weak in muzzle, full in eyes, liffht in boue, weak in pasterns, 

 has bad feet, and is very faulty behind. Hawthorne Belle, 

 vhc, was just about the best in the class; she was fully- 

 described in our New Haven report. Lady Maud, vhc, is 

 very faulty in head, ears and eyes; she did not deserve a card. 

 Sister in Black that was first at Boston and second at Hartford, 

 was first in the puppy class, and was the best, of a bad lot. 

 Dora, second prize, although a poor specimen, was just about 

 good enough ror second prize; her head is very bad. Mysting, 

 he, was not worth a card; a very poor specimen. The same 

 may be said of Bold Brigand, vhc. ; he is flat in loin, sballow 

 in body, slab-sided, and very faulty in head and ears. Ahwaga 

 Chief is a strong dog, faulty in head and lacking in character ; 

 he deserved his card. 



DEERHOUNDS— (MR. KIRK). 



Chieftain, Roy, Mac and Perth were the entries in the 

 champion class, and Mr. Thayer's grand dog scored an easy 

 win. Bras, first prize in the open class for dogs, was fully 

 described in our Hartford report; he has improved in con- 

 dition, and while he is better in head than Bevys III, second 

 prize, the latter is his superior in almost every other point- 

 save size. Bryan, vhc, is faulty in head, eyes and coat. 

 Heather, well known, was he Mr. Kirk made a fearful 

 blunder in the bitch class. Wanda was a very easy wmner 

 and Heather Belle, he, was much the best for second place; 

 she is faulty in head and stands too high behind, but shows 

 character, and is a bitch of fair size. Mercia, second prize, is 

 a very poor specimen; she has a wretched head, is small, 

 faulty in coat, and shows little deerhound character; a com- 

 mended card should make her feel verv happy. Storma, 

 faulty in ears, ribs and loin, and not first-class in other re- 

 spects, was the only puppy shown and %Tas given first prize. 



POINTERS— (MR. TRACY). 



Ninety-six pointers were entered, with sixteen absentees 

 With the exception of the show held in 1878, this is the 

 smallest number of pointers ever shown at New YorK, being 

 four less than last year. These figures include the dogs shown 

 by the club. There were quite a number of very fine animals 

 shown, notably the exhibit of the Graphic Kennel. Aside 

 from a score or so of the really good dogs present, the average 

 was not equal to that of previous shows. Next year we shall 

 expect to see a great improvement, especially in the puppy 

 classes. Last year and tbe year before the pointer judging 

 was remarkable for the many erroneous decisions made, and 

 we regret to add that there was no improvement this year in 

 this respect. In Forest and Stream of Jan. 28 is an article 

 entitled "Ancient and Modern Setters," written by Mr. Tracy, 

 in which he says, "The uniform lesson of old pictures is that 

 our best types of setters existed as long ago as any record can 

 be traced." In summing up he says, "Surely if every orna- 

 mental point as well as every useful point in the breed is a 

 heritage from the distant past, we ought to so frame eur 

 standard as to guard. all of them from change or innovation." 

 This in a great measure will apply to the pointer as well as the 

 setter, especially so iu some of the more important character- 

 istics of the breed. We failed to find, however, in some of the 

 animals selected for high honors, much resemblance in the 

 pictures of the past or present time. If Mr. Tracy could get 

 his pointers as nearly right in the ring as he does on canvas, we 

 should have no occasion to find fault with his decisions. ' 

 In the champion class for large dogs, Robert le Diable was 

 placed over Graphic This decision we cannot indorse. Rob- 

 ert has filled out and does not lack so much in substance as 

 when shown here last year, and is improved in appearance 

 thereby. He is a very good dog, but not good enough to beat 

 Graphic. Our description of him in our report of the New 

 York show last year, with the exception above noted, holds 

 good to-day. He is also tied up in shoulders, which can be 

 readily seen, when he gallops. Our opinion that he is not the 

 best of his kind is not weakened by the fact that he was sold 

 during the show by a club whose ambition it is to possess the 

 best kennel in the country. In the bitch class, Revel III, was 

 alone. She was in elegant condition, as were her kennel com- 

 panions. In the open dog class Tammany was placed first, 

 Duke of Bergen second, and Fritz third, with Danby, William 

 Tell and Tempter, vhc. All are well-known and have been 

 frequently described. Fritz was the best of the class, and 

 should have been first, with Tammany second and William 

 Tell third. Danby and Tempter were well placed. Duke of 

 Bergen was just about worth the three letters. Drake, not 

 looking his best, was he Frank, the . Flock-Finder, also de- 

 served the two letters at least, for his good head, chest, legs 

 and feet. He is a big dog with plenty of bone. He is somewhat 

 coarse and too throaty, but one of the best movers in the class. 

 In the bitch class Sep'h G., placed first, has a fair head, body 

 and legs. Her ears are carried badly and she lacks depth of 

 muzzle. She is also light in bone, has moderate feet and a 

 coarse tail that has been clocked; vhc. was about hei place. 

 Jilt, placed third, was looking well. She was the best 

 in the class and should have been first, There was not 

 much to choose between Nell, Nan and Vera for second place. 

 The latter is a good looking bitch, a little off in back and too 

 straight behind. In the champion light-weight class for dogs 

 Bracket won the prize and his kennel companion Meally won 

 in the bitch class. In the open dog class Mr. Tracy placed 

 Consolation over four better dogs, Mr. White, who bred this 

 dog, publicly announced previous to the judgmg, that he had 

 made a change in business, but would also "iudulgf-i to a lim- 

 ited extent in the continuance of a favorite theory of pointer 

 breeding, which he has been studying for some time past. His 

 dogs will not he for sale, however, and will be confined to the 

 number needed to carry out the experiment." As he had sold 

 Consolation it is to be inferred that the goal of his ambition 

 was not yet obtained. After the wonderful merit of the dog 

 had been discovered by the judge, however, his breeder pa- 

 raded him before the public as the culmination of his fondest 

 hopes, the result of long years of study and experiment. We 

 have bred many pointers and occasionally one would turn up 

 approaching in form this wonder, but, li^e Mr. White, we soon 

 got rid of all such specimens. We have never seen a dog of this 

 stamp that possessed both speed and endurance. There are ex- 

 ceptions to all rules however,aud we are informed by gentlemen 

 in who a we have the utmost confidence, that this dog can go 

 and stay. He is a small dog, hardly good looking with good 

 neck, loin, tail, legs and feet. His head is not good, his chest 

 is shallow and he is too narrow at hips, he is badly out at 

 elbows and stands very awkward in front. He should have been 



