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Ant. VI. The Sporting Dictionary, and Rural Repository of general Information, upon 
~ every Sulzect appertaining to the Sports of the Field; inscribed to the Right, Honourable 
~ the Earl of Sandwich, Master of his Majesty's Stag Hounds. By Wirusam Tarun, 
Author of the Gentleman's Stable Directory. 8vo. 2 vols. about 500 pages each. 
THIS will be a very acceptable, pre- 
sent to the Squire Westerns of the pre- 
sent day, and indeed to those ‘high- 
blooded gentry who aspire to be knowing 
ones, and would be glad of the lesson 
upon easier terms than it is commonly 
taught. Mr. Taplin is highly impress- 
ed with the importance of his work, and 
claims justly, for aught we know to the 
contrary, considerable merit on the 
score of originality. He says that the 
various publications which annuallyissue 
from the press under sporting titles, 
*¢ having been repeatedly re-copied, and 
repeatedly transmitted from one genera- 
tion to another, are replete with matter 
nearly obsolete, and sports long ‘since 
buried in oblivion!”? He also tells us, 
we will take his own words, for to re- 
model the sentence would destroy its 
beauty, that * what has issued from the 
press under titles of attractive similitude 
have been much more the efforts of the- 
oretic lucubration than the result of 
_practical knowledge or personal expe- 
rience.” With all the pomp and gran- 
diloquence of Gibbon, Mr. Taplin as- 
surés us that 
«« Numerous and diversified as the subjects 
are, they will be found largely treated on, 
Arr. VII. A Description of a Patent Hot-house, which operates chiefly by the Heat o 
the Sun, without the Aid of Flues, or Tan-Bark, or Steam, for the Purpose of heating it. 
To which is added an Appendix, containing Remarks upon a Letter from T. A. Knight, 
Esq. on the Subject of Mr. Forsyth’s Plaster. By James Axperson, LL. D. 
FAS. EL Se. 
IN hot-houses of the common con- 
struction, the panes of glass which form 
the roof are disposed somewhat in the 
manner of slates, each pane lapping over 
‘the other, and thus allowing a commu- 
nication of the external with the internal 
air, between the upper and under sur- 
face of the two glasses. Now as air en- 
larges in bulk in proportion to the in- 
crease of the temperature, it is obvious 
that the internal air, whenever it is 
warmer than that of the atmosphere, 
will be~ constantly escaping by the cre- 
vices in the roof, and its place in the hot- 
house will be supplied by cold external 
air through the key-hole and other aper- 
tures, thus producing a constant draft, 
and requiring the aid of fire to keep up 
the due degree of warmth. 
pp- 248. 8vo. 
RURAL ECONOMY AND GARDENING: 
struction is built entirely. of wood an 
: 
: 
and satisfactorily explained : not a8 has been 
too much the case in former publications, by 
the effusions of literary fertility but clearly 
demonstrated upon the practical knowledge, 
and individual experience, of the author ; 
who, disdaining the subservient trammels of 
imitation, has not presumed to enter into a 
diffuse disquisition upon any sport or subject 
in which he has not been personally and 
principally engaged. If the mind of man 
can be candidly admitted to derive some gra- 
tification from its universality of rational at- 
tainment, so itis the greatest and most‘con- 
solatory ambition of his life, to have engaged 
in every sport, and to have embarked in every — 
pleasure, upon which these volumes will be 
found to treat ; without a deviation from the 
line of consistency, a debasement of dignity, — 
or a degradation of character.” 
Seriously, these volumes contain 2 
good deal of information respecting dogs 
and horses, cocks and bulls, stags and 
foxes, &c. &c. &c. ad infinitum. The 
birth, parentage, and education’ of cele- 
brated racers are given under their re- 
spectivenames. Four or five engravings, 
one illustrative of the improved mode of 
shoeing, and another of the age of a 
horse as indicated by his teeth, are 
added; in short, the book is altogether 
useful enough. 
The hot-house of Dr. Anderson’s con 
glass, so as to intercept as few rays 0 
the sun as possible, consistently with th 
stability of the building. It consists o: 
two chambers or stories, the lower wit 
a flat cieling of glass, the upper with 
roof whose pitch or angle is of the usua 
magnitude. The lower cieling, the roo 
and in short every part of the building 
is made as perfectly air tight as possible 
the doors even, when properly closed 
admitting hardly any air. A sma 
hole is made near the bottom of the tip 
per chamber to communicate with th 
atmosphere, and the two chambers ar 
connected with each other by a pi 
with four openings, fixed into the roo 
and passing strait down about two 
