[ Frederick Edwin Smith / The Story of Newfoundland ]
Smith (1872 - 1930), the 1st Earl of Birkenhead, was a British lawyer, statesman, and writer — and one of Winston Churchill's closest personal friends.
This work was first published in 1901; a revised edition followed in 1920 (London: Marshall & Son).
This work has only one reference to Newfoundland dogs, and that is not to the dogs themselves but to an 1832 political cartoon that features dogs (including a Newf) in parody of the Newfoundland parliament:
"The House of Assembly of 1833 was the youngest constituent body in America, but it was not one whit behind any of them in stately parliamentary pageant and grandiloquent language. H.B. (Doyle) in London caricatured it as the 'Bow-wow Parliament' with a big Newfoundland dog in wig and bands as Speaker putting the motion: 'As many as are of that opinion say—bow; of the contrary—wow; the bows have it.'