Kittens: A Family Chronicle | by Svend Fleuron- Those who have been content to regard the cat merely,
aesthetically, as a household ornament, economically, as a
mouse-killer, or fantastically, as an adjunct of witchcraft, will
doubtless read this book with some surprise. For Svend Fleuron has
imagined (or observed) a cat more or less cut off from relationship
with men, bringing up her kittens in the fields, against all the odds
that any wild animal, surrounded by the destructive terrors of nature,
has to face. If this novel were a true picture of human life, it would
show, relentlessly and bitterly, how nature overcame the mother and
her children. As, however, it is a picture of cat life, the end is a
happy one...
- Stories of Animal Sagacity | by William Henry Giles Kingston
- 300+ tales of how clever various individual animals have been seen to be, and in most cases a little moral is drawn from the story. The book includes 60 illustrations.
- The Boston Terrier And All About It. A Practical, Scientific, And Up To Date Guide To The Breeding Of The American Dog | by Edward Axtell
- Who and what is this little dog that has forced his way by leaps
and bounds from Boston town to the uttermost parts of this grand
country, from the broad Atlantic to the Golden Gate, and from the
Canadian border to the Gulf of Mexico? Nay, not content with this,
but has overrun the imaginary borders north and south until he is
fast becoming as great a favorite on the other side as here, and
who promises in the near future, unless all signs fail, to cross
all oceans, and extend his conquests wherever man is found that can
appreciate beauty and fidelity in man's best friend...
- Concerning Animals And Other Matters | by E. H. Aitken
- Edward Hamilton Aitken, the author of the following sketches, was
well known to the present generation of Anglo-Indians, by his pen-name
of Eha, as an accurate and amusing writer on natural history subjects.
Those who were privileged to know him intimately, as the writer of
this sketch did, knew him as a Christian gentleman of singular
simplicity and modesty and great charm of manner. He was always ready
to help a fellow-worker in science or philanthropy if it were possible
for him to do so...
- Diseases Of The Horse's Foot | by H. Caulton Reeks
- Stimulated by the reception accorded my 'Common Colics of the Horse,' both in this country and in America, and assured by my publishers that a work on diseases of the foot was needed, I have been led to give to the veterinary profession the present volume.
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