MAN'S BEST FRIEND

Radio Record, Volume VIII, Issue 41, 19 April 1935, Page 22

MAN'S BEST FRIEND

Beauty in the Dog JrOLLOWIN G the first two numbers of their "Life and Art in Photograph" series, Messrs. Chato and Windus have devoted the third number in the series io dogs with a splendidly produced yolume containing one hundred photographs of all the well-known breedsand some of the lesser known, too-and also many portrait heads and several pictures of foxhunting, beagling and greyhound racing taken in various parts of England. The interesting part of this publication from a New Zealander’s point of view is that the publishers have en-, deavoured to maintain the same standard of quality in the subjects of their illustrations as they have in the mechanical perfection of the book and dog’. lovers who peruse this volume will recognise the images.of many of England’s best known and most highly-suc-cessful canine aristocrats. The value of the publication is that in the majority of cases the dogs are reproduced in . , their natural form giving fanciers an opportunity of studying their strength and their weaknesses in quality and type. This is in marked contrast with the majority of dog books we have seen previously in which the hand of the ‘engraving artist has given the animal qualities it does not possess through excessive retouching. This new work confirms the view that there is true beauty and character in man’s most faithful friend. "AS Bok of Dogs." "Life and Art in Photograph" Series. Chatto and Windus. Our copy from the Publishers.