All about dogs: a book for doggy people
A Book for Doggy People. By Charles Henry Lane, Breeder, Exhibit- or, Judge. With eighty-seven illustrations of the most celebrated Champions of our time. Drawn from Life by R. H. Moore. John Lane. 1900. Large 8vo, pp. 400.
People who like dogs will like this book; it is the utterance of one who speaks with authority and unction on a subject with which he is fully identified. Long experience in raising, training, exhibiting, and judging give Mr Lane's opinions so much weight that he will undoubtedly be ranked as a classic by those for whom he writes
. And of a certainty, he will seriously object to the ordering of things for his happiness in a future world if dogs be not allowed there.
The work is done by an Englishman for Englishmen; it deals with a few of the New World types, Eskimo, Newfoundland, and Boston Terrier, yet there is no reason why it should not meet with warm approval on this side of the Atlantic, English setting and style not be- ing generally regarded with disfavour, without mentioning that in his career as a judge, the author has had the honour of judging dogs for all the royal family, her Majesty, the Princesses, and the Prince, which in some quarters will enhance the attractiveness, of course.
The races worthy of a place here are carefully selected; only the more aristocratic dogs look out upon us from these pages. They are gathered by an amateur, a dog- fancier, not a scientist, but an expert in his line, and thorough enough within his limits.
The points of the different breeds are set out in excellent order. Anyone may im- prove his ideas of the best of dogs by means of the clean and animated descriptions, the exhibition gossip, the entertaining stories, and the numerous fine illustrations — all so filled with interest as to dissipate the disagreeable memories frequently associated with our friends the dogs — the whining, the yelping, the snarling, the fighting, and the smells of the dog-show or the kennels. Less dogginess and loudness on the cover and title- page would diminish the opportunities for criticism of this very fair example of the bookmaker's art. All about dogs
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