19 NOVEMBER 1904, Page 8

True Stories about Animals. By Edith Carrington. (Blackie and Son.

2s.)—These "true stories" are very good to read. Miss Carrington, a well-known friend of animals, has chosen them judiciously. Some are old friends ; with others we make acquaintance for the first time, as the collie who would sit in the Queen's chair ; a kitten which, left by his mistress going on a holiday, went by train to look for her; a monkey which took a hat round for a charity ; and a sheep which fetched some one to help a drowning companion. Nor do we remember to have seen before the story of how Tennyson amused a restless pony, which had to stand while something was being fetched, by holding his watch to its ear.