[ Walsh / The Dogs of Great Britain, America, and Other Countries ]
"Stonehenge" was the nom de plume of John Henry Walsh (1810 – 1888), an English surgeon who abandoned his first career to pursue his deep love of sport, becoming a well-known writer and editor on sporting topics and something of an expert on sporting rifles. He is the author of other works treated here at The Cultured Newf: The Dog in Health and Disease (1872) and The Dogs of the British Islands (1867).
The full title of this work is "The dogs of Great Britain, America, and other countries.
Their breeding, training, and management in health and disease. Comprising all the essential parts of the two standard works on the dog, by Stonehenge. Together with Chapters by American writers." This work is indeed a sort of blending together of material from Walsh's two earlier books in an attempt, by the publisher, to make Walsh's writings about dogs more financially accessible. First published in 1879, it was reprinted several times and enlarged in 1914, although there were no changes to the discussion of the Newfoundland.
Newfoundlands are mentioned multiple times in this work: in the introduction as "the noble Newfoundland who protects and rescues life," and in several other places, usually as a point of reference relative to the traits or appearance of other breeds, and as contributing to the development of the Chessie (an observation not found in the first edition of the work).
The chapter on the Newfoundland is taken from, and edited down from, Walsh's two earlier books mentioned above, so there is no need to reproduce that material here. That discussion is illustrated with the same image used to illustrate the Newfoundland in Walsh's Dogs of the British Islands:
There are a few additional references to Newfoundlands, passing remarks that, again, use the Newf as a point of reference in describing traits of other breeds.
