Includes bibliographical references (pages 589-591).

Call of the wild. For the love of a man / Jack London -- Blue milk / Booth Tarkington -- Memories / John Galsworthy -- Hound and the hat ; Dog that bit people ; Snapshot of a dog / James Thurber -- Dandy, the story of a dog / W.H. Hudson -- Verdun belle / Alexander Woollcott -- Gulliver the great / Walter A. Dyer -- Bar sinister / Richard Harding Davis -- Coming of Riquet / Anatole France -- Odyssey of Runyon Jones / Norman Corwin -- Brag dog / Vereen Bell -- A dog's nervous system ; Care and training of a dog ; Obituary / E.B. White -- Our friend, the dog / Maurice Maeterlinck -- Biscuit eater / James Street -- Rex / D.H. Lawrence -- My talks with Dean Spanley / Lord Dunsany -- Memoirs of a yellow dog / O. Henry -- From pillar to post / Jack Alan -- A dark-brown dog / Stephen Crane -- Ruffled paws / Bertha Damon -- A man and his dog. Bashan / Thomas Mann -- Dog of Pompeii / Louis Untermeyer -- Being a public character / Don Marquis -- Moses / Walter D. Edmonds -- Soul of Caliban / Emma-Lindsay Squier -- Dark gentleman / G.B. Stern -- A pair of lovers / Elsie Singmaster Lewars -- Garm-- a hostage / Rudyard Kipling -- Lassie come-home / Eric Knight -- Voice of Bugle Ann / MacKinlay Kantor -- A book of famous dogs. Some Sunnybank dogs / Albert Payson Terhune -- Whistle / Hugh Walpole -- Character of dogs / Robert Louis Stevenson.