Opinions on Vegetable Diet. 719 



Ireland. J2mo, 2d edition. Dublin, 1832, Curry jun. 

 and Co. 



The author decidedly prefers Canada to the United States. 

 " In no other country in the world," he says, " can such com- 

 forts and advantages be obtained in exchange for labour and 

 industry; but, at the same time, I do not recommend those 

 who enjoy happiness and comfort at home, even with a life of 

 toil, to emigrate on mere speculation." As to the part of 

 Canada that Mr. Doyle prefers, he says : — i; So impressed am I 

 with the advantages which are offered to the settler in Upper 

 Canada, that, were I not engaged in public and private duties, 

 I would join the first merry-hearted set of Irish emigrants in 

 planting ourselves and our potatoes in one of the richest 

 townships in the Huron territory." 



Anon. : Opinions of several eminent Medical Men with re- 

 gard to Vegetable Diet in reference to Cholera. Pamph. 

 8vo, 32 pages. London, 1832. 3d. 



The apprehensions of cholera which were entertained in 

 London in July and August last, and an impression which then 

 prevailed, that eating of fruit and vegetables would predispose 

 the body to receive this disease, went well-nigh to ruin the mar- 

 ket-gardeners, inasmuch as these causes seriously diminished 

 the consumption and sale of their productions. Hereupon a 

 committee of the Market-Gardeners' Society addressed a letter 

 to those physicians whose letters are published in the pam- 

 phlet, soliciting their several opinions on the connection which 

 might obtain between vegetable diet and the cholera disease. 

 Thirty letters from as many medical men, twenty-nine of them 

 M. D.s, received in reply to this letter, occupy the pamphlet, 

 headed by a preface, from which we learn, without reading the 

 letters, " that the impression of fear in the public mind with 

 regard to vegetable diet may be entirely removed, and con- 

 fidence again restored ; as the general use of vegetables, as 

 hitherto, is not only not injurious, but highly beneficial and 

 valuable." 



Various Writers : Transactions of the Albany Institute from 

 1828 to 1830. 1 vol. 8vo, 240 pages, with plates. Albany, 

 1830, Webster and Skinners. 



This book contains some useful papers. They, however, 

 appertain more to the natural history of the state than to 

 the art of gardening as practised in it. Art. 3., by Dr. Beck, 

 " On the Geographical Botany of the United States," contains 

 some interesting notices of plants. The book supplies gratify- 

 ing evidence that the inhabitants of Albany are arduous in 

 researches for the acquisition of knowledge. 



