Transcriber’s Notes Hyphenation has been standardised. The spellings of Durer and Dürer are being left unchanged. The spellings of Etretat and Etretât are being left unchanged. Page 190.png changed other to another In this text version, text in italics is delimited by _underscores_. [Illustration: MAUD HOWE.] FAMOUS PETS _OF FAMOUS PEOPLE_ BY ELEANOR LEWIS [Illustration: “MOUCHE”, VICTOR HUGO’S CAT.] _ILLUSTRATED_ BOSTON D. LOTHROP COMPANY WASHINGTON STREET OPPOSITE BROMFIELD COPYRIGHT, 1892, BY D. LOTHROP COMPANY. PRESS OF Rockwell and Churchill BOSTON TO Maud Howe Elliott WHOSE DEVOTION TO HER OWN PETS CONSTITUTES HER THE FRIEND OF EVERY OTHER, THIS BOOK IS APPRECIATIVELY INSCRIBED BY THE AUTHOR CONTENTS. I. SOME SCOTCH CELEBRITIES 15 II. A SELECT COMPANY 37 III. PETS IN LITERARY LIFE 53 IV. “THE UPPER TEN” 75 V. A NOTABLE CANINE TRIO 119 VI. PETS IN ARTIST LIFE 135 VII. PUSSY IN PRIVATE LIFE 173 VIII. AN ODD SET 189 IX. MILITARY PETS 209 X. ANIMALS AT SCHOOL 231 XI. A MENAGERIE IN STONE 247 LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS. Miss Maud Howe and her dog Sambo _Frontis._ Statue of Sir Walter Scott, in Edinburgh 17 Sir Walter Scott and his bull-terrier, Camp 21 Rab 25 “Baby Rab” 26 “Pity the sorrows of us homeless dogs” 27 Dr. John Brown, Dr. Peddie, and Dandie 28 Drinking-fountain monument to Greyfriars’ Bobby, Edinburgh 29 Greyfriars’ Bobby 31 Mrs. Harriet Beecher Stowe at home 38 Mrs. Stowe’s dog Punch 40 Mrs. Stowe’s dog Missy 41 Mrs. Phelps’s dog Daniel Deronda 42 Mrs. Jane Welsh Carlyle and Nero 45 Lord Byron and his dog Lyon 56 Sir Horace Walpole and Patapan 59 Charles Dickens’s pet raven, Grip 62 Bushie, the favorite dog of Charlotte Cushman 66 Mouche, Victor Hugo’s cat 68 General Muff, Miss Mary L. Booth’s cat 69 Nelly, the dog of Edmund Yates 71