540 Lambert on the Rural Affairs of Ireland. 



Kennedy, Lewis, Esq., son of Mr. Kennedy, the late eminent Nurseryman 

 of Hammersmith, Steward to Lord Willoughby De Eresby, Author of 

 The Tenancy of Land in Great Britain, &c. : On the Cultivation of 

 tlie Waste Lands in the United Kingdom, for the purpose of finding Em- 

 ployment for the able Poor, now receiving Parochial Aid, and thereby 

 diminishing the heavy Burthens of the Poor Rates; and on the Expe- 

 diency of making some Provision for the aged and disabled Paupers of 

 Ireland, London. Paniph. 8vo. 2*. 6d. 



Mr. Kennedy, obviously influenced by the most benevolent motives, re- 

 commends, with Mr. Allen, colonies at home in preference to colonies in 

 Australia or Canada, and paying for labour what now is paid as poor rates 

 for nothing. We entirely agree with him, but having already given our 

 opinion at length on this subject, and recommended the same thing in our 

 concluding review of Slaney? and in our notice of Mr. Allen's pamphlet 

 (Vol. n. p. 321 .), we need not follow Mr. Kennedy into details. It gives us 

 much pleasure to find from his dedication, that " to promote the happiness 

 and to increase the comforts of the labouring and distressed poor," has been 

 " a favourite and cherished purpose " of Lord and Lady Willoughby De 

 Eresby. We should be most happy if Mr. Kennedy would enable us to 

 record the acts of his noble patrons j to give plans of the cottages they have 

 built, the size of the gardens they have laid to them, and the description of 

 village schools, established on the very extensive estates of this family in 

 Perthshire, Lincolnshire, and Wales. 



Lawrence, John, Author of A PMhsojjhical and Practical Treatise on 

 Horses, TJie History of the Horse, &c. : The Horse in all his Varieties 

 and Uses; his Breeding, Rearing, and Management, whether in Labour 

 or Rest ; with Rules, occasionally interspersed, for his Preservation from 

 Disease. London, 1829. Small 8vo, pp. 315. 8s. 



The name of Lawrence is familiar to every agricultural and veterinary 

 reader, and the present work may be considered as the concentrated essence 

 of all that the indefatigable and patriotic author had formerly written on 

 the subject of the horse, combined with some new matter of his own, and 

 with whatever he found valuable in recent works on the same subject. To 

 every one who keeps a horse, or intends to keep one, we can strongly 

 recommend the book, as both good and cheap. 



Lambert, Joseph, Esq.: Observations on the Rural Affairs of Ireland, or a 

 Practical Treatise on Farming, Planting, and Gardening, adapted to the 

 Circumstances, Resources, Soil, and Climate of the Country. Dublin. 

 8vo, pp.327. 



This is a valuable little volume ; valuable because practical, plain, and 

 rational. It is not inflated by theoretical dreams of what should, but com- 

 mon sense directions of what may, be done. Nothing is advised to be un- 

 dertaken or executed but what experience has already proved to be bene- 

 ficial. The amelioration of the soil by the introduction of the best practice, 

 and the greatest improvement of the moral and personal condition of the 

 Irish peasantry, are the results at which the author aims, and which will 

 certainly follow the adoption of the measures and means proposed by him. 

 He looks to no parliamentary interference, or forced regulations, to alter the 

 customs, by thwarting the opinions or prejudices, of the agriculturists ; but 

 by the evidence of expedients which, from uniform success, bring conviction 

 to the mind of the cultivator. The only blemishes arc those of nomencla- 

 ture ; but on all the subjects treated of the advice is sound, the directions 

 plain, and the phraseology respectable. The work should be in the hands 

 of every rural improver; not in Ireland only, but every where else. — J. M. 

 Chelsea. 



