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his treatment of the subject fair and candid. A copious table of contents and a 
complete index are not the least valuable portions of the work. 
Diseases and Injuries of the Horse : Compiled and Edited by F. O. Kirby. 
Illustrated; octavo, pp. 332. William Wood & Co., New York, 1883. 
For sale by M. H. Dickinson. 
This is one of the volumes of Woods' Library of Standard Medical Authors, 
and for owners of horses and veterinary surgeons it will be found eminently useful. 
It is a practical manual, prepared by the compiler after sixteen years experience 
of the diseases and injuries of the horse, and it is copiously illustrated with colored 
plates and wood cuts showing various forms of diseases, the instruments for and 
manner of treating them. The very best writers upon the subject have been 
freely drawn from and it is now offered as better adapted to the wants of horse- 
men than any work that has preceded it. It is handsomely printed and bound, 
thus being alike creditable to writer and publishers. 
What I Saw in Europe: By S. O. Thacher. i2mo., pp. 153. Kansas Pub- 
lishing House, Topeka, Kansas, 1883. 
In the summer of 1883 Judge Thacher and family made a vacation excur- 
sion through Spain, Portugal, Tangier and southern France, afterwards returning 
through the more usually travelled route via Italy, Switzerland, Germany, the 
British Isles, etc. This volume is made up from the letters written by 
him to the 'LdiVfroixcQ Journal, from time to time, and is published, not for sale, 
but for the entertainment and gratification of his friends. The author is a close 
observer, and though his trip was necessarily hasty, he found time to see and 
note much that is not the regular stock in trade of cicerones and guide-books. 
We have only space to say that the work is written in a free, flowing style and a 
genuine Kansas (which means cosmopohtan) spirit. The impression produced 
on his mind is summed up as follows: "There are few if any aspects of our 
life, our habits and institutions that do not excel those found abroad, while the 
elasticity, the freedom and noble equality of American citizenship compel even 
foreigners who once lived in the United States to unite with the returning trav- 
eler in his laudation of the land where there is no vast standing army, no titled 
aristocracy, no entailed estates, no State-paid priesthood and no barrier between 
the lowliest birth and the loftiest position." 
Vagabondia : — A Love Story: By Frances Hodgson Burnett. i2mo., pp. 
392. Jas. R. Osgood & Co., Boston, 1884. For sale by M. H. Dickinson, 
This is a reappearance of "Dolly," published in 1873 ^7 Peterson, but re- 
vised, corrected and re-christened. It is a story of a family of artists and gov- 
ernesses, straitened in circumstances but contented with their lot and happy in 
