31 JULY 1926, Page 17

Miss Katharine Tynan.tells us in A Dog Book (Hutchinson, 4s.

6d.) that when she was reading aloud a harrowing dog story to her family circle, her white Pomeranian betrayed agitation and shivered and stared at her with his eyes watering. " He. had certainly. understood something of what was read or at least that it. was a very sad story." Indeed a most emotional pet ! * * * *