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Art. II. The Young Farmer s Manual: shotting the Practice and 

 Principles of Agriculture, as applicable to Turnip-Land Farms in 

 the South of England ; with collateral Observations and Remarks 

 on Agricultural Cattle, Plants, Implements, 8$c. By J. Main, 

 A.L.S. Post 8vo, pp. 274. London, 1839. 



The " Agricultural writings already before the public," Mr. Main observes, 

 " are either small practical tracts, or voluminous codes. The first are too 

 concise, and the last are by far too bulky and diffuse for practical readers, 

 who only wish to know when and how any operation should be performed." 

 Mr. Main, therefore, proposes in his " little volume," to give such a practical 

 compendium as will meet the wishes of those " who prefer an epitome to a 

 more laboured performance, and practical directions to scientific disquisi- 

 tions." (Pre/., p. vii.) 



The work, we are informed, contains " a detail of the actual proceedings and 

 practice of a working farmer, who took an active and laborious part in every 

 operation which he describes : and, although his practice be only directly appli- 

 cable to a turnip-land farm in one of the southern counties of England, the 

 general descriptions, and collateral observations, are calculated to be useful to 

 every young farmer, wherever he may be situated, in any part of the United 

 Kingdom. 



"As the information was originally written in the form of a letter of instruc- 

 tion for a young friend who was about to enter into the business, the descrip- 

 tions are necessarily circumstantial. Even those matters which every boy 

 about a farm may be supposed to be acquainted with are minutely described ; 

 and this the writer has endeavoured to do in the plainest language. On all 

 practical subjects it is scarcely possible to be too prolix : and, though it may 

 be a fault in the composition, it cannot be objected to by pupils or inexpe- 

 rienced readers, more especially as reasons are given for almost every thing 

 alluded to, or recommended to be done." (p. vi.) 



The above extracts will enable the reader to form a notion of the sort of 

 book he may expect, and we can assure him that, in perusing it, he will find 

 it correspond with the end proposed. Indeed, we do not know any work so 

 well adapted for communicating a practical knowledge of farming to the 

 novice, or enabling one who had never farmed before to try his hand with 

 success. 



Art. III. Goodwood, its House, Park, and Grounds, with a Catalogue 

 raisonne of the Pictures in the Gallery of His Grace the Duke of 

 Richmond, K.G. To which are added, an Account of the Ancient 

 Encampment, Tumuli, and British Village, on the adjacent Downs; 

 and a detailed Record of Goodwood Races, from their first Esta- 

 blishment. With six Illustrations. By William Hayley Mason, Li- 

 brarian of Goodwood. Post 8vo, pp.215, six plates. London, 1839. 



Feeling a great interest in Goodwood, on account of the numerous cedars, 

 cork trees, and other American trees and shrubs planted there by the third 

 Duke of Richmond, in the time of Collinson and Miller, we were most 

 anxious to see this book; and, having been kindly favoured with a copy, we 

 lose no time in recommending it to our readers. 



After a general description of the estate and of the house, the pictures are 

 enumerated, some of them described, and many of the portraits accompanied 

 with historical anecdotes. These matters occupy 153 pages ; after which 

 commences a description of the park and gardens, which carries us on to 

 p. 184. ; and the remainder of the volume contains an account of the Good- 

 wood races from their establishment in 1802 to 1838. What principally inte- 

 rests us is the description of the park and gardens ; and we are glad to find 



