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Perhaps The Diary of a Dog (Cecil Palmer, 5s.) is not a book for everybody. The present writer, who has himself driven from Banint to Cashmere, and lived on a houseboat on the Dal Lake amidst the. waterlilies,, is too .curiousLy. . close to _the scenes described to be able to judge whether others will sharehis enjoyment of them. But he is sure that for certain kinds of people—dog-lovers, travellers, Anglo-Indians--this charm- ing little book will- -a joy. , The name of the author is not - given, for -the fcniterrier, "'ratters," who "grew More beau. tiful every day" (therels_an excellent photograph of her doing it) speaks in person, after a " foreword " by the Duchess of Hamilton, and a preface by Sir Francis Fletcher Vane. Tatters' master was killed at. Gallipoli. This book is the idyll of a three months' holiday spent among the mountains and waters of an enchanted land.
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