Doctor Dolittle's Puddleby Adventures

8 stories 3 new characters are "members of that unique institution, the Home for Cross-Bred Dogs, which represented the Doctor's greatest attempt to give the mongrel his proper place in dog society." Otherwise the longest and best is "The Story of the Maggot", evidently from an incident in <i>Doctor Dolittle's Garden</i>. --Milton Crane, <i>Chicago Daily Tribune</i> 1952-11-16 pB4 <br><br> Another contemporary newspaper apparently says the first 4 are dog stories sure to be popular with children, the last 4 are not and maybe not

Per Wikipedia 2017-01-02: -- "a posthumous collection of stories that Lofting originally wrote during the 1920s for the Herald Tribune Syndicate" -- originally 8 stories, of which two are recently omitted (not confirmed) -- Introduction by Lofting's sister-in-law Olga Michael (She had completed the preceding novel, Doctor Dolittle and the Green Canary (1950), which contains much material published during the 1920s for the same syndicate.)

"41 stories" per capsule Was. Post 1952-11-16 pCBF14 (perhaps 41 instalments in New-York Herald and other 1920s newspapers)