LEA AND BLANCIIARD'S PUBLICATIONS. 



YOUATT AND SKINNER'S 



STAf^OARD WORK ON THE HORSE. 



THE HORSE. 



BY WILLIAM YOUATT. 



A NEW EDITION, WITH NUMEROUS ILLUSTRATIONS. 

 TOGETHER WITH A. 



G-ENZinAI. H2STORY OP THE HOHSE; 



A DISSERTATION ON 



THE AMERICAN TROTTING HORSE; 



HOW TRAINED AND JOCKEYED. 



AN ACCOUNT OF HIS REMARKABLE PERFORMANCES; 



AND 



AN ESSiVV OIT THE ASS .A.I^'D THE MULE, 



BY J. S. SKINNER. 



Assistant Post-Master-General, and Editor of the Turf Register. 



This edition of Youatt's well-known and standard work on the Manage- 

 ment, Diseases, and Treatment of the Horse, has already obtained such a 

 wide circulation throughout the country, that the Publishers need say no- 

 thing to attract to it the attention and confidence of all who keep Horses or 

 are interested in their improvement. 



" In introducins this very neat edition of Youatt's well-known book, on ' The Horse,' to our 

 readers, it is not necessary, even if we had time, to say anythins to convmne them of its worth ; it 

 has been highly spoken of, by those most capable of appreciating its nients, and its appearance 

 under the patronage of the 'Society for the DilTusion of Useful Knowledge,' with Lord Brougham 

 at its head, affords a full guaranty for its high ch.aracter. The book is a very valuable one, and we 

 endorse the recommendation of tlie editor, that every man who owns the ' hair of a horse,' should 

 have it at his elbow, to be consulted like a family physician, ' for mitigating the disorders, and pro- 

 longing the life of the most interesting and useful of all domestic animals.' " — Fanner's Cabinet. 



" This celebrated work has been completely revised, and much of it almost entirely re-written 

 by its able author, who, from being a practical veterinary surgeon, and withal a great lover and 

 excellent judge of the animal, is particularly well qualified to write the history of the noblest of 

 quadrupeds. Messrs. Lea and Blanchard of Philadelpliia have repnWished the above work, omitting 

 a few of the first pages, and have supplied their place with matter quite as valuable, and perhaps 

 more interesting to the reader in this country ; it being nearly 100 page.i of a general history of t'ne 

 horse, a dissertation on the American trotting horse, how trained and jockeyed, an account of his 

 remarkable performances, and an essay on the Ass and Mule, by J. S. Skinner, Esq., Assistant Post- 

 -na-ster-General, and late editor of the Turf Register and American Fanner. Mr. Skinner is one 

 of our most pleasing writers, and has been fiimiljar with the subiect of the horse from childhood, 

 and we need not add that he has ac(iuittcd himself well of the task. He also takes up the import- 

 ant subject, to the American breeder, of the Ass. and tlie Mule. This he tn-ats at length and con 

 amnre. The Philadelphia edition of the Horse isa handsome octavo, wilh niHiieni"S wood-cut.s."— 

 Amiriran Aiiriadhinst. 



