TESTIMONIALS. 



HOW TO MAKE A BOOK." 



The writer prefers to depend upon the merits of his work for 

 its extended sale and the employment of his personal services, 

 both as a teacher and practitioner, than to the ad captandum 

 mode of operations implied in the display of a large number of 

 laudatory testimonials, while the desired and paid for infor- 

 mation is non est inventus. 



This is the general character of a book published a few years 

 since, whose title page would lead the purchaser to imagine 

 that a. great secret was to be the equivalent for his five dollars; 

 but instead of which he purchased a work that would have been 

 better entitled, " A Collection of Letters and Extracts from 

 Newspapers upon the Merits of a Method of Treatment for 

 Horses' Feet ; " but the rationale of which method could only 

 be imparted after a fee of from one hundred to five hundred 

 dollars has been duly paid and pocketed. The amount of dis- 

 appointment and profane swearing which has been occasioned 

 by the sale of that book and its purchaser is not edifying to 

 dwell upon. 



"the play without the part, of hamlet." 



The writer of this work believes that it will not belie the 

 promises of its title page ; that it will not create disgust and 

 disappointment ; that it will not be a mere collection of letters 

 laudatory of a system with the system omitted ; the play of 

 Hamlet with the part of Hamlet left out, but that it will supply 

 the long sought-for information ; the loudly-expressed want of 

 all horse-owners of every class and description ; the most hu- 

 mane and successful of all systems of treatment for the diseases 

 of the feet of horses. 



