Originally published in 1993, <i>Sit!</i> was named a Notable Book of the Year by <i>The New York Times </i> and was excerpted in <i>Harper's</i> magazine and <i>The New York Times Book Review</i>. George Booth, writing in the<i> NYTBR</i>, called it "the best of humor....Delightful!" while <i>Cosmopolitan</i> pronounced it "irresistible."<br><br>Renamed <i>Remembrance of Dogs Past</i>, this fetching collection of 70 disarmingly funny portraits is as fresh and funny as ever. Beginning with an 18th- or 19th-century ancestral portrait, Thierry Poncelet seamlessly paints in a dog's head over the original human subject's. The resulting tour de force is a fantasy that looks uncannily real, the dogs appearing all too human in their military regalia or elaborate gowns. And for a glorious twist, <i>New Yorker </i>humorist Bruce McCall names each dog and offers a brilliant tongue-in-cheek biographical sketch. Thus there's Lord Gristle (black Labrador), proprietor of a vast tabloid chain, with dark memories of rolled-up newspapers; Marie-Claire DuBossy (white poodle), who shocked France's poetry circles by refusing to beg; and Percival Horace Denbeigh (Jack Russell terrier), Britain's foremost military correspondent, with an infallible nose for news.<br><br> It's a howl.