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part of the country," the author observes, " unless in those favoured spots 

 where kind-hearted and valuable landlords goad their tenant into improve- 

 ment," the cabins of small holders are unfit to be seen. He asks, whence 

 does this arise ? and answers, " from early habits of slovenliness, bad 

 management, and poverty." (p. 11.) The plan of the small holder's cot- 

 tage and farm-yard, the whole covering a space of 36 ft. by 55 ft. is better 

 than we should have expected ; but we should have preferred placing the 

 cottage on a raised platform, or rising to it by three or four steps. 



Berry, the Reverend Henry : Improved Short-horns, and their Pretensions 

 stated ; being an Account of this celebrated Breed of Cattle, derived 

 from authentic Sources. To which is added, an Enquiry as to their 

 Value for General Purposes, placed in Competition with the improved 

 Herefords. London. Pamph. 8vo, second edition. 1830. 

 Davey, John, Esq. Bath : Observations on the Disease which has lately 

 been so destructive to Sheep, called Bane or Coath ; particularising the 

 Causes, and minutely describing the Modes of effecting its Cure j and 

 pointing out those Means which ought to be adopted to prevent its 

 Recurrence. Bath. Pamph. 8vo. 2s. 6d. 1830. 

 Jennings, James, Esq., Author of the Family Cyclopaedia, &c. : A Practical 

 Treatise on the History, Medical Properties, and Cultivation of Tobacco. 

 London. 12mo. 4s. 6d. 



This is a little book of very agreeable gossip, mixed up with poetry bor- 

 rowed and original. If the author had seen Tatham's Historical and Prac- 

 tical Essay, and made use of that, as well as of Carver's Treatise, in 

 compiling his section on cultivation, he might have produced a much more 

 useful book. He ought also to have seen Brodigan's work, which appeared 

 at least two months before that now under notice, and taken up the subject 

 of the cultivation of tobacco in Ireland. The chief difficulty attending 

 the culture of tobacco in Britain will be found in the fermenting and 

 curing, which we do not think can ever be done properly without the aid 

 of artificial heat; but were the cultivation free, this difficulty and every 

 other, except that of climate, would soon be got over ; at least if to get over 

 them were found worth while. 



The Servant's Guide, and Family Manual. Limbird. 1 vol. 8vo. 5*. 



A very useful little work, which will at once serve as a cookery book, a 

 guide for every description of servants, and a valuable assistant to the 

 head of every family. We shall recommend this book every where, if it 

 were only for the sake of the excellent suggestions on the " self-improve- 

 ment" of house-servants, (p. 253.) 



France. 



Desfontaines, R., of the Academy of Sciences, Professor of Botany in the 

 Paris Garden : Catalogus Plantarum Horti Regii Parisiensis, cum An- 

 notationibus de Plantis novis aut minus cognitis. Paris. 1829. 8vo, 

 third edition. Ifrs. 



The arrangement is Jussieuean, commencing with Monocotyledones, and 

 including under that class : — Ordo I. indices ; II. Rhizosperma; (Pilu- 

 laria and Marsilm) ; III. -Equisetacese (i?quisetum) ; and IV. Nai'adeae ; 

 these orders being considered by Desfontaines, and some other botanists, 

 as belonging more to Monocotyledones than Acotyledones. The system- 

 atic names of the species only are given, without the French names ; but 

 the systematic synonymes are added, and one or two references to good 

 figures, with the native country ; the duration is designated by the usual 

 signs of annual, biennial, and perennial, and those of shrubby habit by the 

 usual sign. The words econ. (economical), med. (medicinal), orn. (orna- 

 mental), ven. (venomous) cald. (caldarium) and temp. (c. temperatum) 

 for the stove and green-house, are also added. The reason given for 



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