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 extinct. A day or two afterwards I was asked to go and see Mr. Cross at the Yard—the result being that I was engaged to write 'The New Book of the Dog.'" Mr. Leighton adds that the present General Manager is "more universal" than any of his predecessors, allowing no restriction of personal taste to interfere with the range of the literary output of the House.