... ILLUSTRATIONS (full page) :-continued. NEWFOUNDLAND Dog, after Landseer SQUIRRELS, Photo, by Laurence W. Pike Star-Gazers, after Gambier Bolton ... The FRUGAL MEAL, after John F. Herring The Shoeing Forge, after Landseer THE SLEEPING BLOODHOUND, after Landseer IMMORTALITY v. Extinction, by Maude Hadden INTERNATIONAL AssociaTION FOR THE TOTAL SUPPRESSION OF Vivisection, How It WAS ... ... 24 54 OLD AGE Pensions (Horse Illustrations) Cruelty TO ANIMALS, by Mrs. C. Earle White Manchester Anti-ViviseCTION SOCIETY, by Mrs. Herbert Philips Philip Gilbert HaMerton, by Miss Betham-Edwards Pigeon ShootING AND ITS PRODUCTS, by the Editor Poaching in Epping Forest, by H. Chipperfield A BALLADE OF AUSTRALIE, by H. R. AN EASTERN LEGEND, by Isabel Southall AN OLD LEGEND, by the Rev. J. Hudson, M.A. A Lesson Of Mercy, by William E. A. Axon He Careth for MAN AND THE SPARROW, by M. Stewart " I would not Enter On My List of FRIENDS,” by William Cowper ... ... On Seeing A WOUNDED HARE WHICH A Fellow HAD JUST Shot, by Robert Burns 152 SonNer—For Christmas Day, by Canon Rawnsley Sonnet-ON “ The Home or Rest for Horses,” by Canon Rawnsley 194 SonNet-TO THE LAST Two Survivors The Ancient Mariner, Extracts from, by S. T. Coleridge The Bitter CRY OF THE BABES, by Sarah K. Bolton ... 135 THE DEAD Seal CHILDREN, by Canon Rawnsley The Dove, from the Two Worlds 179 The Little Bird's WARNING, by A. Rogers To A Mouse TURNED Out of Her Nest, by A. Plough The Rime of THE Rev. GENTLEMAN, by Charles D. Steele The BLACKBIRD's Song, by Henry Kingsley 40 Benson, COL. AND MRS. S. M.... 90, 91 73 226 152 149 93 130 29 37 HENNIKER, The Hon. MRS. ARTHUR... WHITE, MRS. EARLE 45 237 218 ... ... 65 REGIMENTAL Pets 8 SELECTIONS FROM THE Post BAG 14, 15, 30, 40, 71, 91, 92, 110, 111, 112, 138, 161, 236, 244 SIGHTLESS ANIMALS, by Prof. Woodroffe Hill, F.R.C.V.S. Sir John LUBBOCK ON THE LOVE OF NATURE ... Some Four-LEGGED FRIENDS OF MINE, by Justin McCarthy, M.P. 33 40 The BEARING Rein, by Edith Ward The BOMBAY ANIMAL Hospital (Illustrated), by E. Seymour Hale The Buisson TREATMENT FOR HYDROPHOBIA, AN INTERVIEW WITH MR. F. E. PIRKIS ... ... ... The Dogs' HOME, BATTERSEA 144 179 The Erricacy of the SPARROW, by Edith Carrington The God of the Horse, by the Very Rev. the Dean of Durham THE INFLUENCE OF THE FIReside, by Frances Power Cobbe 229 16, 88, 534 The Lower BRETHREN, by Canon Wilberforce The Muzzle TORTURE, by Professor W. Hill (Illustrated) 197 The MUZZLING ORDER, Who is RESPONSIBLE ? What Experts Say, by the Editor 154 The Night.JAR At Home, by Edith Carrington (Illustrated) 145 9 The Secret of the Oxen, by the Countess Kamensky, Translated by Frances Power The WEARING OF Furs (Col. Coulson, Mr. Gambier Bolton, Prof. Jordan) 132 143 107, 138 ... ... ... ... ... Victoria STREET Anti-Vivisection Society's Annual Meeting, Letters from Mr. Justice Hawkins, Sir Henry Irving, and Father Ignatius ... 199 222 ... ... Yorkshire FarmERS AND SPARROWS, by Edith Carrington ... Rejoinder by Miss Carrington Next door to Battersea Park Road Station, London, Chatham, and Dover Railway. PATRON-Her Most Gracious Majesty THE QUEEN. Established in 1860 to Shelter Lost and Deserted Dogs found in the streets of London; to restore EVERY PURCHASER is required to state in writing the real purpose for THE HOME, which relies mainly on VOLUNTARY SUPPORT, is now in urgent need of help. It has no Government subsidy, and its resources are severely taxed to meet the heavy demands Subscriptions and Donations will be most thankfully acknowledged by SIR GEORGE S. MEASOM, J.P., TREASURER, or Frank Morrison , M to R. FRANK MORRISON is one of the always been of the deepest interest to both of band, by no means small, of English them. The cry of the children-and what a men and women who do good by pitiful, sorrowful cry it is the police-court stealth, altogether indifferent as records tell but a small part-has touched whether they ultimately find it fame or not. very keenly the hearts of a couple to whom Richly endowed with this world's goods, he has that blissful possession has been denied. endeavoured, without the slightest ostentation, Almost from the beginning Mr. Morrison has to help those Causes which claimed the good given it a thousand pounds a year, amounting wishes of a generous and sympathetic nature. in the aggregate now to £12,000. The work of His strongest characteristics through life have that Society was so needed, and so splendidly been kind-heartedness and generosity and a done that both he and his wife felt they must love of manly life as he understood it. A help it. And in so doing they have answered hater of oppression, injustice, and cruelty, he the appeal which Charles Dickens so powerhas given unstintedly towards the support of fully and pathetically made a great many Causes which warred against these evils. A years ago on behalf of suffering and neglected devoted and tender lover of animals, he has childhood. Our readers may thank us for “done what he could” for them, liberally recalling and slightly paraphrasing it for our assisting the funds of the Royal Society for own purpose. the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals, the “ The most delightful paper, the most Victoria Street Society for the Protection of charming essay, which the tender imagination Animals from Vivisection, and kindred organic of Charles Lamb conceived, represents him as zations, while the Animals' Friend owes him sitting by his fireside on a winter night, telling and the lady who shares his life and sympathies stories to his own dear children, and delighting a very warm debt of gratitude. Yet Mr. in their society, until he suddenly comes to his Morrison will be more surprised than anyone own solitary bachelor self, and finds that they when he sees himself pourtrayed in our pages. were but dream-children, who might have been Mrs. Frank Morrison, besides “ aiding and but never were, * We are nothing,' they say abetting” her husband in his good works, has to him; less than nothing and dreams. We largely interested herself in many acute are only what might have been, and we must questions affecting the welfare of women, and wait upon the tedious shore of Lethe, millions here again Mr. Morrison has loyally and of ages, before we have existence and a name.' financially supported her in every way. It will * And immediately awaking,' he says, “I found be seen that the scope of his benefactions has myself in my arm-chair. The dream-children not been limited to promoting the welfare of whom I would now raise, if I could, before animals. When the great Polytechnic for that every one of you, according to your various vast and crowded district of London known as circumstances, should be the dear child you Battersea, where there are several hundred love, the dearer child you have lost, the child thousands of the working and poorer classes, you might have had, the child you certainly was projected, Mr. Morrison gave £10,000 have been. Each of these dream-children towards the scheme, hoping to help the should hold in its powerful hand one of the workers in that locality to a higher state of little children now [being starved and ill-treated technical excellence in the handicrafts upon or now shut out of home to perish]. Each of which their well-being depends. Both he and these dream-children should say to you, O, Mrs. Morrison had long thought they owed help this little suppliant in my name; O, help help to struggling and suffering London, where it for my sake!'" Mr. Morrison's father had made a great And so “ the dream children” have come to fortune. In such generous and effective their own. How much many of them now manner did he interpret Arnold Toynbee's living happy and useful lives owe to their Gospel of Restitution. generous benefactors it would be difficult to But of all interests, the one which has been, compute. It is enough that Mr. and Mrs. perhaps, of the greatest solicitude to Mr. and Frank Morrison have, not only in these semiMrs. Morrison is that organization which, public concerns, but in large and unceasing under the fostering care of the Rev. Benjamin private benevolence, done what they could Waugh, has arisen to protect and succour the to relieve suffering, which, after all, is the most helpless and dependent of our own race. greatest and the hardest fact in this cruel The Society for the Protection of Children has world. Notice to Jaiots. When you see a dog pant in hot weather, or act strangely, kill it. If possible, collect a crowd of other idiots, and stone it to death, or treat it in such a way that it bites you in self. defence. Then you are sure it is mad. The dog, of course, is not mad, and is, as rule, by far the most intelligent actor in scenes of this description. To one case of rabies there are thousands of human idiots whose good luck it is that the dogs possess wiser instincts than themselves.- New York “ Life." а |