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REVIEW. 
Quid sit pulchrum, quid turpe, quid utile, quid non. — Hon. 
Dogs: tlieir Management; being a New Plan of Treating the 
Animal; based upon a consideration of his Natural Temperament, 
Illustrated by numerous Woodcuts, depicting the cha- 
racter and position of the Dog when suffering Disease. 
By Edward Mayhew, M.R.C.V.S., Author of ‘The 
Horse’s Mouth, showing the Age by the Teeth.’ Editor 
of e Blaine’s Veterinary Art,’ &c., &c. London: Routledge, 
1854 . 
No wonder the dog is the chosen companion of man. He 
has more claim, he makes more solicitation for man’s attention 
and regard than any other animal : the more sagacious and 
cunning, but treacherous animal, the ape ; the more useful but 
less sagacious horse not excepted — each of these, indeed, may, 
in some particulars, lay a higher claim to man’s temporary 
admiration ; but, under all circumstances, under prosperity 
and adyersity, kind and unkind treatment, under vicissitudes 
of temper and passion, what competitor has the dog? which 
of them can bear his master’s frown, nay, even his lash, and 
yet can at once succumb and smile in his face ! Faithful and 
honest, the suppliant looks up in his master’s face for mercy 
and forgiveness.^ No wonder, we repeat, the dog has become 
the chosen companion of man. 
And yet, up to now, no one seems to entertain correct 
notions concerning the origin or parentage of the dog : some 
fancying the fox was his fore-father, though this is a notion 
too preposterous to be maintained. Others, with more reason, 
have named the wolf ; though to this hypothesis are irrecon- 
cileable objections, one of the chief of which is the anato- 
mical discordancies of the two animals. 
Reasoning en philosoplie on the subject before us, Blaine 
was the first man who honestly and strenuously devoted his 
