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NEW PUBLICATIOiNS. 



EUROPEAN AGRICULTURE AND RURAL ECONOMY 

 FROM PERSONAL OBSERVATION. 



[By Henry Coleman, of the United Slates of America. To be completed 

 in 10 numbers.] 



" For, in all things whatever, the mind is the most valuable and the most 

 important ; and in this scale the whole of agriculture is in a natural and 

 just order: the beast is an informing principle to the plow and cart, the 

 laborer is as reason to the beast, and the farmer is as a thinking and pre- 

 siding principle to the laborer." — Burke. 



The first instalment of Mr. Henry Coleman's European Agri- 

 culture and Rural Economy has been issued from the press, and 

 received in this country. This instalment comes to us in five 

 numbers of nearly 100 pages each, making in all 492 pages. 

 About the same quantity of matter we suppose remains to be 

 issued. The complete work will then consist of 2 vols., 8 vo., 

 of one thousand pages, with ten beautiful steel plate engravings 

 of cattle, sheep and horses, together with the necessary wood 

 cuts for the illustration of English implements of husbandry. 

 Thus far the mechanical execution of this work is every thing 

 which we had a right to expect, and of which none will find the 

 least fault. It is excellent. Mr. Coleman's habits and great 

 love of beauty and neatness necessarily resulted in what we have 

 said of the mechanical execution of the work. Then again, the 

 style, the composition, figures of speech, illustrations of ideas, are 

 all in keeping and in harmony with the pages of the work. 



No man ever went out from this country to obtain agricultural 

 knowledge who took such a task upon himself (we might say re- 

 sponsibilit}^-, perhaps, but w^e rather say task), as Mr. Coleman ; in- 

 asmuch as the execution of it required that he should do something 

 or find out something by which money would be put into the 



