. The Open court. of all sorts, or the ordinary city dog, who isconfined for the most part to a small yard and has only an occa-sional formal run of an hour or so as an apology for exercise. The more nearly vegetative a dogs existence becomes, thelighter and more vegetable should his diet be. In fact, some un-fortunate little wretches of lap dogs, toy spaniels and pugs, can onlybe kept alive at all and in any temper short of fiendish, by cuttingdown the meat in their diet almost to the vanishing point. Someof them are kept by fanciers, when training for a particular beauti-ful coat of hair, fo


. The Open court. of all sorts, or the ordinary city dog, who isconfined for the most part to a small yard and has only an occa-sional formal run of an hour or so as an apology for exercise. The more nearly vegetative a dogs existence becomes, thelighter and more vegetable should his diet be. In fact, some un-fortunate little wretches of lap dogs, toy spaniels and pugs, can onlybe kept alive at all and in any temper short of fiendish, by cuttingdown the meat in their diet almost to the vanishing point. Someof them are kept by fanciers, when training for a particular beauti-ful coat of hair, for show purposes, upon a diet of toast, dipped intea, or milk-and-water; shavings, instead of sea coal, under theirboilers. PROFESSOR HAECKEL AS AN ARTIST. BY THE EDITOR. SOME time ago we called attention to Professor Haeckels workon Ari Forms in Nature which was appearing in installments,and now we make the announcement that the work has been com-pleted and lies before us in a stately folio volume, containing loo. VIEW FROM THE RAMBODDE PASS. 4535 After a photograph from Haeckels Wanderhilder. plates, many of them colored, and accompanied by descriptive text.*The elegant beauty of some of the lower forms of life is sur-* Kunstformen dcr Natur. Leipsic, 1906. PROFESSOR HAECKEL AS AN ARTIST. 429 prising, and it seems that these pictures and photographs shouldbe of rare value to artists, especially those who work in the line of


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