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advertisements and picftorial wall-posters, and would not either 
arrest attention or draw subscriptions.” 
This appeal might shame some of our BestiarLns were they 
consistent in ought save inconsistency. 
Although a cynophilist, or even as our contribu'.or, Frank 
Fernseed, would term him, a cynolater, the author is more reason- 
able than some of the fraternity. He admits that the barking of 
dogs is a rampant nuisance and a “ source of serious distress to 
brain-workers, and of imminent danger to the sick.” He con- 
siders that “ there ought to be a more prompt method of restrain- 
ing the offending owner from inflidting the barking-torture upon 
his neighbours than is now obtainable.” He owns that remon- 
strance with the owner is “ generally met with insult, always with 
indifference. 
But whilst fully aware that no man has a right for his private 
gratification to inflicff such serious annoyance upon his neighbours, 
we cannot agree with Mr. Nicols that it is only chained dogs which 
make day and night hideous with their yelps and howls, and that 
they might be cured by allowing them more exercise. Going 
along Tottenham Court Road we were once obliged to turn aside 
into Gower Street because a little dog persisted in running 
yelping after every passing omnibus. More than once we have 
had to get out of a tram-car before our journey’s end because 
some dog-owner had taken his seat in the vehicle, whilst his 
“ base tyke ” ran along by the side of the horses, barking inces- 
santly. 
The following passage is certainly outrageous : — “ A human 
being who has not at some period of life enjoyed the friendship 
of a dog has missed one of the most humanising of all influences. 
Almost all the best men and women I have known were indebted 
to association with their dogs for much of that which is best in 
their character and disposition.” Our experience and observation 
lead us to a very different conclusion. 
Museums of Natural History. A Paper read before the Literary 
and Philosophical Society of Liverpool, by the Rev. H. H. 
Higgins, M.A. Also a Phylogenetic Scheme of the Pedigree 
of Animals and Vegetables. By Prof. Herdman. Liver- 
pool : D. Marples and Co. 
Were we to refer to every part of this pamphlet which richly 
deserves notice our critique would be bulkier than the treatise 
itself. Eschewing therefore all preliminaries, we perceive that 
the author divides visitors to Museums into three classes, — 
Students, Observers, and Loungers. The former, whom he 
approximately estimates at i to 2 per cent of the total, are those 
