29 MARCH 1902, Page 24

A Dog Book. Pictures by Carton Moore Park. Text. by

Ethel Bicknell. (Grant Richards. la. 6d.)ThiS is No. 12 of " The Dumpi Book Series," and the pictures and letterpress are both amusing. Here is an example of the latter :—" There were once three Irish terriers who were forbidden to get on a sofa. When their master left the dogs alone, on his return he often felt the

• sofa; if it was warm, he knew the dogs had been sitting there, and then he would whip them. One day he came into the room very quietly, and found the three dogs blowing on the sofa to cool it. I am afraid this story is not true, but Irish terriers really are very clever indeed."