. PUBLISHERS' PREFACE. For fifty years, " Stonehenge," by wbicli name Mr. J. H. "Walsh is known in both Continents, has made the dog a constant study. More than twenty years ago the Messrs Longman, of London, selected him to revise Mr. Youatt's work. Since then his volumi- nous writings in the " Field," and elsewhere, have^ revealed such thorough knowledge of the subject as to constitute him the un- disputed authority on all matters pertaining to the dog. Blaine, Daniel, Hill, Mayhew, Richards, Youatt, and other authors, take rank far below him, while " Idstone,&q
. PUBLISHERS' PREFACE. For fifty years, " Stonehenge," by wbicli name Mr. J. H. "Walsh is known in both Continents, has made the dog a constant study. More than twenty years ago the Messrs Longman, of London, selected him to revise Mr. Youatt's work. Since then his volumi- nous writings in the " Field," and elsewhere, have^ revealed such thorough knowledge of the subject as to constitute him the un- disputed authority on all matters pertaining to the dog. Blaine, Daniel, Hill, Mayhew, Richards, Youatt, and other authors, take rank far below him, while " Idstone," who, perhaps, stands next to him, frankly alludes in his work to " Stonehenge " as " without doubt the first of living authorities," " the most experienced and scientific of writers," etc. He is so regarded to-day in America, as well as in Europe. The writings on w-hich " Stonehenge's" reputation and present popularity mainly rest are contained in the two works " The Dog in Health and Disease," (1872), and " The Dogs of the British Islands," (1878). The high cost of these works XI
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