27 DECEMBER 1890, Page 25

Bob, the Spotted Terrier, with fifty illustrations by Harrison Weir

(Routledge and Sons), and Hero's Story, by Harriett Boultwood (P. Nimmo and Co., Edinburgh), may be classed together as stories of dog-life, told from the dog point of view. Lovers of dogs—a class which, it is to be hoped, includes the greater part of civilised man—will not fail to be interested in them.