[ Elwes / The Adventures of a Dog, and a Good Dog Too ]
Alfred Elwes (1819–1888) was an English academic, translator, and author, with much of his output being works for young adult readers. This particular book is regarded as one of his works of juvenile fiction, which is why it is listed in the "Young Readers" section of The Cultured Newf, though given its length and vocabulary I find it hard to imagine that it would appeal to many modern readers younger than later teens.
This work, first published in 1854, is presented as the autobiography of a dog named Job, an honest dog so kind-hearted that in the introduction to this work — written by a cat — it is remarked that
the subject of this biography had so endeared himself to all classes and to every tribe by his kindness of
heart, noble devotion, and other dog-like qualities, that there was not a cat, in spite of the supposed natural antipathy existing between the
great feline and canine races, who would not have set up her back and fought to the last gasp in defence of this dear old fellow.
Of course we should not be surprised that Job is such a likeable and admirable dog, once we learn his parentage:
She [the dog who raised Job] has told me that my father was a foreign dog of high rank; from a country many, many miles away, called Newfoundland, and that my mother was a member of the Mastiff family.
That is the only mention of Newfoundlands in the book.