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government of Livonia alone, the following animals were de- 

 stroyed by wolves in 1823. The account is an official one: — 



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, Arrian on Coursing. The Cynegeticus of the Younger Zenophou, 

 translatedjrom the Greek, with Classical and Practical Annotations, 

 and a hriej sketch of the Life and Writings of the Author ; luith 

 an Appendix, containing some accouyU of the Canes Venatici of 

 classical antiquity. By a Graduate of Medicine, with embellish- 

 ments from the Antique. London. 8vo. p. 314. 



The amateurs of the leash, the naturalist, and the scholar, 

 will be delighted and gratified with this elegant translation and 

 richly illustrated edition of one of the most curious remains of 

 antiquitv. It is addressed, says the translator, to the coursing 

 public alone, for whom the original was written thirteen centu- 

 ries ago, by their representative of old, a courser of Nicomedia 

 in Asia Minor ; and for whose amusement and instruction the 

 same now assumes an English garb. The sportsman, fond of 

 the musical confusion of hounds and echo in conjunction, will 

 read it with indifference, as treating of a branch of rural sport 

 not congenial to his taste, and wonder that an attempt should 

 be made to bring under public notice so ancient a treatise on a 

 subject of .such partial interest. But the Courser, it is humbly 

 conceived, the active patron of the x.vn<; x.ixrix.xt, proud of his 

 greyhounds, that 



" are as swift 

 " As breathed stags, aye fleeter than the roe," 



will peruse it con amove, and find in its pages much that is en- 

 tertaining and practically useful, and that utility enhanced in 

 the department of annotation. It is foreign to my purpose, 



