The letterpress of this book makes no pretence of competing with the excellent works that are already in existence, its object being to afford some help and interest to the thousands who keep one or two dogs as workers or as pets, or to the more limited number who may contemplate getting together a kennel for purposes of exhibition. From the questions that are frequently reaching me, I have come to the conclusion that many will be grateful for advice upon the common ailments from which dogs are liable to suffer, free from unnecessary technicalities, together with some observations upon the general treatment of our canine friends.

Mr. Vernon Stokes' illustrations are so admirable in every respect, that I feel that whatever I have to say must of necessity be subordinated to them. They will appeal alike to the connoisseur and to the man who does not know a dog in the technical sense. To the old hand, who may say that I am telling him nothing new, I may rejoin that he has already graduated in the best of all schools - that of experience - and that my remarks are largely addressed to those who are about to tread the path he has followed for years.

Mr. Vernon Stokes asks me to express his thanks to the following for allowing him to use their dogs as models for his sketches: Mrs. Ingle Bepler, Irish Setters; Mrs. Edgar Waterlow, Bulldogs; Miss Maud Bernhard-Smith, Scottish Terriers; Mr. Edgar Water-low, Sussex Spaniels; Dr. Cooper Bentham, Deerhounds; Mr. A. E. Hill, Fox Terriers; Mr. W. Wrighton Thorpe, Airedales; Mr. W. Lee, Cocker Spaniels; Mr. B. Wells, Retrievers; Mr. A. S. Hall, Irish Wolfhounds; while he drew upon my own kennels for Bloodhounds and Bassets.

A. C. S.