Scotch Deer-Hounds and their Masters. By George Capples. With Memoir
by James Hutchison Stirling, LL.D. (Blackwood and Sons.)—The deer-hound is the aristocrat among dogs. His shape, his manners, combine to give him this distinction; as a sporting dog his day is over. The stalker is much more likely to kill without the aid of a dog than with it, though he may now and then lose a wounded deer which his dogs would have recovered for him. Still, the animal's raison d'dtre has not altogether ceased. As a companion he has very high qualities, though his intelligence is not very large, except in one or two special directions. All about the creature, what he was and what he is, with other matters, reaching as far as the prehistoric dog, may be found in this volume. It concludes with a most interesting memoir of the author. George Cupples is known to most readers as the writer of "The Green Hand," a sea-novel, for which his one naval ex- perience, eighteen months on a voyage to India and back, gave him material. It was Cupples'e solitary trial of the sea.
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