CONTENTS.

I.
SOME SCOTCH CELEBRITIES [15]
II.
A SELECT COMPANY [37]
III.
PETS IN LITERARY LIFE [53]
IV.
“THE UPPER TEN” [75]
V.
A NOTABLE CANINE TRIO [119]
VI.
PETS IN ARTIST LIFE [135]
VII.
PUSSY IN PRIVATE LIFE [173]
VIII.
AN ODD SET [189]
IX.
MILITARY PETS [209]
X.
ANIMALS AT SCHOOL [231]
XI.
A MENAGERIE IN STONE [247]

LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS.

Miss Maud Howe and her dog Sambo[Frontis.]
Statue of Sir Walter Scott, in Edinburgh[17]
Sir Walter Scott and his bull-terrier, Camp [21]
Rab[25]
“Baby Rab”[26]
“Pity the sorrows of us homeless dogs”[27]
Dr. John Brown, Dr. Peddie, and Dandie[28]
Drinking-fountain monument to Greyfriars’ Bobby, Edinburgh[29]
Greyfriars’ Bobby[31]
Mrs. Harriet Beecher Stowe at home[38]
Mrs. Stowe’s dog Punch[40]
Mrs. Stowe’s dog Missy[41]
Mrs. Phelps’s dog Daniel Deronda[42]
Mrs. Jane Welsh Carlyle and Nero [45]
Lord Byron and his dog Lyon[56]
Sir Horace Walpole and Patapan[59]
Charles Dickens’s pet raven, Grip [62]
Bushie, the favorite dog of Charlotte Cushman[66]
Mouche, Victor Hugo’s cat[68]
General Muff, Miss Mary L. Booth’s cat[69]
Nelly, the dog of Edmund Yates[71]
Frederick the Great and his sister Wilhelmina[78]
Prince Bismarck and his dogs[81]
Queen Elizabeth in her peacock gown[86]
Mary, Queen of Scots, at the age of ten[87]
Lady Margaret Lenox, mother of Lord Darnley[88]
Children of Charles I. with spaniels [90]
Children of Charles I.; Prince Charles and his mastiff[91]
James Stuart, Duke of Richmond, son of Esme Stuart[95]
Princess Elizabeth, eldest daughter of James I., and her pets[98]
Princess Mary, daughter of Charles I.[101]
Charles II. and pet spaniel, at Dawney Court, Bucks, seat of the Duchess of Cleveland[104]
Princess Amelia and her dog[105]
Princess Augusta, daughter of George III.}
Princess Amelia, daughter of George III.}		[107]
A favorite at Marlborough House[109]
Pet spaniel of Louis XVI., companion of his daughter “Madame Royale,” in prison[111]
Pet Italian greyhound of Marie Louise[112]
Carlo Alberto and his favorite horse [113]
Victor Emmanuel and his dog[115]
Prince Henry, eldest son of James I.[120]
Prince Rupert with his white dog Boy[127]
Puritan caricature of the death of Prince Rupert’s white hound Boy[131]
Miss Bowles[136]
“Friends now, Pussy!”[137]
The painter Hogarth and his dog Trump[139]
Portrait of Albrecht Dürer at thirteen[141]
Hare drawn by the boy Albrecht Dürer[142]
Two Venetian ladies and their pets[143]
Section of dome[145]
Ducks[146]
Fragment[147]
Hens and chickens[147]
Two of Gottfried Mind’s cats [148]
The Cavalier’s pets[149]
The dustman’s dog[151]
Countess, the sleeping bloodhound[151]
The critics[152]
Paul Pry, a member of the Humane Society [153]
An old monarch[155]
Wasp, Rosa Bonheur’s pet terrier[157]
The horse fair [158]
The lion at home[159]
Glen and his master at Etretât [160]
Glen [161]
Mr. Chase and Kat-te [162]
Lilla, Cruikshank’s little dog [163]
Lady Tankerville, who hid her kittens in the head of Story’s statue of Peabody[165]
Entrance and window of the sculptor Ezekiel’s studio in Rome[168]
Bimbo, one of the sculptor Story’s pets [169]
Cat-headed Egyptian goddess, Bast or Bubastis[174]
Bas-relief of Whittington and his cat[175]
Cardinal Richelieu, front face and sides [179]
The two-legged cat that belonged to Dr. Hill of Princeton College[183]
Sally[193]
Cowper’s tame hares[199]
Helix Desertorum[204]
Bobby, the dog who would be a soldier[211]
The deer that marched ahead[220]
The Welsh Fusileers’ goat[221]
Old Abe[223]
Love leading the orchestra[232]
The elephants of Germanicus[232]
The cat showman[233]
Pinta and his mule Marco[234]
Help, the railway dog of England[235]
Prof. Bonnetty’s troupe[237]
The Brighton Cats[239]
A cat with a conscience[241]
“Tell me thy secret, Beppo”[242]
Sculpture of greyhounds in the Vatican[248]
Sculpture of thieving monkey in the Vatican [249]
Stag in alabaster in the Vatican [250]
Pliny’s doves; a mosaic in the Capitol at Rome [251]
Patrician or plebeian?[253]
The chimera; Etruscan sculpture in the Bargello at Florence[254]

I.
SOME SCOTCH CELEBRITIES.

FAMOUS PETS.