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Show MARK TWAIN'S PLEA. A Dog's Talc. By Mark Twain. Illustrated Illus-trated bv W. T. Smedley. Published by Harper '& Brothers, New York; A. R. Derge &. Co., Salt Lake City. This talo is already widely celebrated, and justly so, for from the standpoint It assumes, man Is made out the most cruel and Inhuman monster that plagues the earth. On tho whole, doubtless ho ls so, from tho brutes' standpoint. Tho special horror which this autobiography of a dog Ib directed against is tho experimentation by men of research and science on the bodies and faculties of the dumb bruto. The case ls not only clearly made out, but tho accumulation of services that the dog telling of them haa rendered, makes tho infliction so much the worse that It 13 pathetic pa-thetic It 13 a master story. |