Chapter XI: A Menagerie in Stone 247

LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS.

Miss Maud Howe and her dog Sambo _Frontis._

Statue of Sir Walter Scott, in Edinburgh 17

Sir Walter Scott and his bull-terrier, Camp 21

Rab 25

“Baby Rab” 26

“Pity the sorrows of us homeless dogs” 27

Dr. John Brown, Dr. Peddie, and Dandie 28

Drinking-fountain monument to Greyfriars’ Bobby, Edinburgh 29

Greyfriars’ Bobby 31

Mrs. Harriet Beecher Stowe at home 38

Mrs. Stowe’s dog Punch 40

Mrs. Stowe’s dog Missy 41

Mrs. Phelps’s dog Daniel Deronda 42

Mrs. Jane Welsh Carlyle and Nero 45

Lord Byron and his dog Lyon 56

Sir Horace Walpole and Patapan 59

Charles Dickens’s pet raven, Grip 62

Bushie, the favorite dog of Charlotte Cushman 66

Mouche, Victor Hugo’s cat 68

General Muff, Miss Mary L. Booth’s cat 69

Nelly, the dog of Edmund Yates 71

Frederick the Great and his sister Wilhelmina 78

Prince Bismarck and his dogs 81

Queen Elizabeth in her peacock gown 86

Mary, Queen of Scots, at the age of ten 87

Lady Margaret Lenox, mother of Lord Darnley 88

Children of Charles I. with spaniels 90

Children of Charles I.; Prince Charles and his mastiff 91

James Stuart, Duke of Richmond, son of Esme Stuart 95

Princess Elizabeth, eldest daughter of James I.,
and her pets 98

Princess Mary, daughter of Charles I. 101

Charles II. and pet spaniel, at Dawney Court, Bucks,
seat of the Duchess of Cleveland 104

Princess Amelia and her dog 105

Princess Augusta, daughter of George III.}
Princess Amelia, daughter of George III. } 107

A favorite at Marlborough House 109

Pet spaniel of Louis XVI., companion of his daughter
“Madame Royale,” in prison 111

Pet Italian greyhound of Marie Louise 112

Carlo Alberto and his favorite horse 113

Victor Emmanuel and his dog 115

Prince Henry, eldest son of James I. 120

Prince Rupert with his white dog Boy 127

Puritan caricature of the death of Prince Rupert’s
white hound Boy 131

Miss Bowles 136

“Friends now, Pussy!” 137

The painter Hogarth and his dog Trump 139

Portrait of Albrecht Dürer at thirteen 141

Hare drawn by the boy Albrecht Dürer 142

Two Venetian ladies and their pets 143

Section of dome 145

Ducks 146

Fragment 147

Hens and chickens 147

Two of Gottfried Mind’s cats 148

The Cavalier’s pets 149

The dustman’s dog 151

Countess, the sleeping bloodhound 151

The critics 152

Paul Pry, a member of the Humane Society 153

An old monarch 155

Wasp, Rosa Bonheur’s pet terrier 157

The horse fair 158

The lion at home 159

Glen and his master at Etretât 160

Glen 161

Mr. Chase and Kat-te 162

Lilla, Cruikshank’s little dog 163

Lady Tankerville, who hid her kittens in the head of
Story’s statue of Peabody 165

Entrance and window of the sculptor Ezekiel’s studio in Rome 168

Bimbo, one of the sculptor Story’s pets 169

Cat-headed Egyptian goddess, Bast or Bubastis 174

Bas-relief of Whittington and his cat 175

Cardinal Richelieu, front face and sides 179

The two-legged cat that belonged to Dr. Hill of Princeton
College 183

Sally 193

Cowper’s tame hares 199

Helix Desertorum 204

Bobby, the dog who would be a soldier 211

The deer that marched ahead 220

The Welsh Fusileers’ goat 221

Old Abe 223

Love leading the orchestra 232

The elephants of Germanicus 232

The cat showman 233

Pinta and his mule Marco 234

Help, the railway dog of England 235

Prof. Bonnetty’s troupe 237

The Brighton Cats 239

A cat with a conscience 241

“Tell me thy secret, Beppo” 242

Sculpture of greyhounds in the Vatican 248

Sculpture of thieving monkey in the Vatican 249

Stag in alabaster in the Vatican 250

Pliny’s doves; a mosaic in the Capitol at Rome 251

Patrician or plebeian? 253

The chimera; Etruscan sculpture in the Bargello at Florence 254

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_SOME SCOTCH CELEBRITIES._

FAMOUS PETS.