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powerful effluvia, at a distance from dwellings. A few rules for preserving 

 health succeed ; in which cautions are given against dampness, and clearing 

 the stomach by vomiting and the bowels by purgatives recommended on 

 the first suspicion of fever, colds, or coughs of any kind. Wooden shoes, 

 or soles made of wood an inch thick, which can be fastened under the 

 leather soles by straps over the foot, are recommended to labourers while 

 working or standing on damp ground. The observations on dress, man- 

 ners, and morals are good, as far as they go ; and the same may be said of 

 those on education. It will readily be conceived that on this last subject 

 we think Mr. Doyle does not go half far enough. 



He appears to belong to that class who imagine that the more a man 

 knows the less he will be inclined to work, and that a certain species of 

 humbug must always be practised towards those who are to get their bread 

 by the sweat of their brow. Perhaps it would have been too much to 

 have expected him to be of a different opinion. 



We are thankful that he has gone so far, and we can not only most 

 warmly and conscientiously recommend his little work to every Irishman 

 who can afford to purchase it, and to L-ish landlords to give away to 

 their tenants ; but we can state, without fear of contradiction, that, so far 

 as ventilation is concerned, the labouring classes of England are as much 

 in want of such a publication as those of Ireland. 



Anon. : Report of the Committee appointed to carry into effect a Plan for 

 ameliorating the Condition of the Poor at Saffron-Waldon, in the 

 County of Essex, and some Account of the Cottage Allotments in the 

 adjoining Parish of Littlebury. Pamph. 8vo. 1830. 



This tract, which does not appear to be sold, affords another proof of 

 the successful application of the palliative system, for such, after all, is the 

 plan of allotting land to labourers, and directing them in its culture. In a 

 healthy state of society it could never become necessary for one class to 

 take upon them the care of the other ; and, until the poor can be supplied 

 with knowledge to such an extent as to enable them to take care of them- 

 selves, they will go on much in the same manner as they always have done, 

 on the verge of want and misery. Let it not be thought, from these remarks, 

 that we do not approve of palliatives ; they are better than nothing for the 

 existing generation, and probably they may lead to something ; we trust to 

 education, for that which rises to succeed them. What a wretched state the 

 occupiers of these allotments must be in, when it is necessary to fetter them 

 with no fewer than nine conditions of holding and culture ; of which one 

 is, " not to plant potatoes imless the ground be first properly manured ; " 

 and another, " that any individual guilty of theft or other misdemeanour 

 will be subject to an immediate ejectment, without the slightest remuner- 

 ation for labour or planting ! " Men will not be drilled either into being 

 good cultivators or good citizens by main force. 



Laurence, Charles, Esq., of Cirencester, brother to the celebrated surgeon 

 of that name, of Whitehall Place, London : Practical Directions for the 

 Cultivation and General Management of Cottage Gardens, with Plans for 

 laying them out for Five Years ; also. Hints on Keeping Pigs, on Ser- 

 vices, &c. Cirencester, 1831. 8vo, pp. 32. 



This little tract is limited to what it pretends to be, " Practical Direc- 

 tions," or, as the author emphatically expresses it, directions " intelligible 

 to those who lack intelligence ; " and as it does not contain a single word 

 of political economy, and approves of going regularly to church, we do not 

 think there is a single individual in the country who could seriously object 

 to it. As a tract to give away, it is much more suitable than our own 

 Manual, because lower in the scale, and consequently more easy of com- 

 prehension. We have only one little objection to make to it, and that is, 

 we disapprove of what the author calls " frequent superintendence." We 



