The wonderfully successful book, entitled "Black Beauty," came like a living voice out of the animal kingdom.

But it spake for the horse, and made other books necessary; it led the way.

After the ready welcome that it received, and the good it has accomplished and is doing, it follows naturally that some one should be inspired to write a book to interpret the life of a dog to the humane feeling of the world.

Such a story we have in "Beautiful Joe." The story speaks not for the dog alone, but for the whole animal kingdom.

Through it we enter the animal world, and are made to see as animals see, and to feel as animals feel.