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The author condemns the practice of driving as “a coarse way 
» of going to work, depending for its success not so much upon 
knowledge as upon force”; and Mr. Ross, in his Introduction, we 
are glad to see, thoroughly endorses this opinion. Driving large 
herds of deer to passes he considers very injurious to a forest, 
and a most cockney, unsportsmanlike proceeding, reducing the 
noble sport of deer-stalking to a level with a “ battue of pheasants 
and hares.” 
When a sportsman of fifty years’ experience states, as Mr. Ross 
does in his Introduction, that this little book is “the very thing 
that was required,” that “every old stalker will read it with 
delight, and every beginner with advantage,” we feel that it is his 
opinion that should be taken, and not that of the reviewer. We 
abstain, therefore, from offering any criticism, the more so since 
our experience does not justify us in writing with any show of 
authority on the subject. 
The book is capitally printed on thick paper with a good 
margin, and illustrated with two excellent photographs of deer, 
alive and dead. 
Of Englishe Dogges, the diversities, the names, the natures, and 
the properties. A short Treatise written in Latine by 
JOHANNES Carus, of late memorie, Doctor of Phisicke in 
the Universitie of Cambridge. And newly drawne into 
_ Englishe by Asranam Fiemine, Student. Imprinted at 
London. 1576. 
Tue original work of Dr. John Kay was published in 8vo 
in 1570, under the title ‘Johannis Caii Britanni de Canibus 
Britannicis, Liber unus,’ and in 1576 an English translation by 
Abraham Fleming appeared in 4to. This translation, copies of 
which are extremely rare, has just been reprinted in 8vo for 
the proprietors of ‘The Bazaar’ and ‘The Exchange and Mart,’ 
170, Strand. 
As the earliest work on dogs in the English language it 
is a very curious produetion, and although not reproduced in 
facsimile, the original being in old English black letter, it is 
a reprint line for line, and even error for error,:the arrange- 
ment and general character having been carefully preserved 
‘throughout, while the title-page is an exact copy taken by 
photography from a copy of the work in the British Museum. 
