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Toots :' the Autobiography of a Persian Cat. Compiled by

Alfred C. Fryer. (S. W. Partridge.)—We have the compiler's assurance

for the truth of this story. Interesting it certainly is. ' Toots ' tells us about his ancestors, who came from Ispahan nearly a hundred years ago. Persian cats, beautiful as they are, generally have a reputation for being somewhat heartless and greedy.

' Toots ' seems to have been an exception. Possibly that was the reason why he died in his prime, for, unhappily, this "autobio-

graphy" is a posthumous work. —Cats in Gloves Catch No Mice, by X. E. H. Hathaway (Dean and Son), has some decidedly clever pictures.