Identifier: newbookofdogcomp01leig (find matches)
Title: The new book of the dog : a comprehensive natural history of British dogs and their foreign relatives, with chapters on law, breeding, kennel management, and veterinary treatment
Year: 1911 (1910s)
Authors: Leighton, Robert, 1859-1934
Subjects: Dogs
Publisher: London New York : Cassell
Contributing Library: Webster Family Library of Veterinary Medicine
Digitizing Sponsor: Tufts University

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Greyhoundshead, which might have been modelled byElkington from Fullerton or Long Span.The lip of the lamp is fashioned in the formof a hare, held in the hounds mouth, thusproving that the hare was the recognisedquarry. The Greyhound enters largely into moremodern European art. There is an admir-able leash of these dogs in Vittore Pisanos Vision of St. Eustace, painted early in now in the Wallace collection, is blackwith white markings, very much resemblingMaster McGrath. All these examples giveeloquent proof of the conservation of theGreyhound type. From the earliest history of the breedthe Greyhound has been considered thehighest type of the canine race ; he hasbeen the favourite of Emperors and Kings.Xenophon and Herodotus extolled his highqualities in prose, and Ovid in verse, thoughthere appears to be some doubt as to whetheror not Xenophon in his treatise on hunting,when speaking of coursing, alluded to dogshunting the hare by scent or by sight, but i go THE NEW BOOK OF THE DOG.
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THE VISION OF ST. HUBERT. Painted by Albert Durer Early in the Fifteenth Century. (The Greyhound in front of the horse should be particularly studied.) a good idea of a course is given in the linesof Ovid, translated by Dryden. As when the impatient Greyhound, slipped from far,Bounds oer the glade to course the fearful hare,She in her speed does all her safety lie,And he with double speed pursues his prey,Oerruns her at the sitting turn ; but licksHis chaps in vain ; yet blows upon the flix,She seeks the shelter which the neighbouring covert gives,And, gaining it, she doubts if yet she lives. All writings in connection with Greyhoundspoint to the high estimation in which thedog has always been held. Dr. Caius,when referring to the name, says The Grey-hound hath his name of this word gre;which word soundeth gradus in Latin, inEnglishe degree, because among all dogges these are the most principall,occupying the chiefest place, andbeing simply and absolutely thebest of the gentle kinde o

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