. The book of a naturalist [microform]. Sciences naturelles; Natural history; Animal behavior; Animaux. *i's. 292 THE BOOK OF A NATURALIST one of the mott horrible forms of cruelty practised on «nimals, hMl a book in the press entitled " The Friend of Man and his Friends, the ; Reading njy unsigned paper in the Magasine, she picked up her pen in a noble rage to add sonte words to her T .troduction. in which she hurled at me certain sayings of Schopenhauer describing man as a very contemptible creature when compared with the dog, and also saying that the writer of the article wa
. The book of a naturalist [microform]. Sciences naturelles; Natural history; Animal behavior; Animaux. *i's. 292 THE BOOK OF A NATURALIST one of the mott horrible forms of cruelty practised on «nimals, hMl a book in the press entitled " The Friend of Man and his Friends, the ; Reading njy unsigned paper in the Magasine, she picked up her pen in a noble rage to add sonte words to her T .troduction. in which she hurled at me certain sayings of Schopenhauer describing man as a very contemptible creature when compared with the dog, and also saying that the writer of the article was " worse than a ; This struck me as a bit thick, seeing that a vivisectionist had 1 ways been to her the most damnable being in the universe. One or two of my friends, vho knew I had written the article, then remonstrated with the lady for using such expressions of one who, though tactless and somewhat brutal, was also a lover of all the creatures, and didn't like to hear so much praise of the dog at the expense of the other animals. The result was that she smoothed her ruffled plumes and sent her regrets and a promise to excise the obnoxious passage in her prefact; in the next edition. Of course it doesn't matter two straws whether she ever had the opportunity of doing so or not: the best part of the story is still to come—the funny part, and a wise word which, though laughingly spoken, may yet do good. The lady's book in the meantime had fallen by chance into the hands of Andrew Lang, and as it was just the sort of thing to delight him, he made it the subject of one of his most charm- ingly amusing leaders in the Daily News of that time. In this article, after the usual pleasant word for the book and its author, he deals with the subject of the dog and man's feeling for it in ancient and modem times, and of the great length to which it has been carried recently, and concludes with a passage which I must q-ote in full, as I don't think this article
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