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this book with a "Praise of the Cat." She tells

us how good and great men have been fond of cats, and what services have been rendered by cats to the world. And the book itself is a story which is intended to inculcate kindness to this admirable creature, and to make at the same time suggestions how cat- lovers may best discharge their duty. All this is very praise- worthy. But there is much in cat nature on which our benevolent

author does not touch. Will not some one write a book by which cats may be exhorted to be kind to us, and be instructed how to do it? Meanwhile, till this can be arranged Pussy Meow—was ever a cat in real life called by such a name ?—may help to promote amicable relations between man and this somewhat exigeant master,