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SUNDAY TIMES, February 13, 1853. 



A Treatise on Breeding a7id Managing Pigeons. By J. M. Eaton. There seems 

 to be an inherent love amongst English people for rearing and imjiro^ang the breed 

 of Pigeons. The Book, as far as we are competent to judge, appears to be a com- 

 plete practical guide for the inexperienced Pigeon Fancier, an elaborate Treatise by 

 a man who has evidently devoted Time, Care, and Attention to the subject upon 

 which he writes. Accompanying the work we have received some well-executed 

 Engravings, Coloured after Nature, of the much-admired ** Almond Tumbler" and 

 other rare and beautiful varieties of Fancy Pigeons. 



MIDLAND SPORTING CHRONICLE, March 4th, 1853. 



A Treatise on the Art of Breeding and Managing Tame, Domesticated and Fancy 

 Pigeons. By John Matthews Eaton, 7, Islington Green, London. It is difficult to 

 select one page more than another, where so much valuable theoretical and practical 

 information prevails throughout. The same able and intelligent author has pub- 

 lished a series of admirably executed Engravings, coloured to the "Very Life," 

 which forms a beautiful and instructive Illustration of the subject which he has in 

 the above Book executed with such masterly skill. They consist of Portraits — 

 1, Carrier. 2, Pouter. 3, Bald-head. 4, Black Mottle. 5, Beard. 6, The Almond 

 Tumbler. This proves a valuable and beautiful appendage to the studio of the 

 Ornithologist. THE FIELD, March 5th, 1853. 



A Treatise on the Art of Breeding and Managing all the Icnoion Tame, Domesticated 

 and Fancy Pigeons. Published by, and to be obtained of, the Author, John 

 Matthews Eaton, 7, Islington Green, London. Mr. Eaton has dedicated his 

 Illustrated Work to the Young Fancier, and appears to have had an especial Eye 

 to giving him the advantage of all his own experience, derived from long observ- 

 ation and reflection. He points out the way of obtaining such birds as will lay a 

 foundation, or improve a stud or strain of birds, and at the same gives the more 

 experienced Fanciers (so often appointed Umpires) much wholesome ad^dce. It 

 appears that Mr. Eaton has dived deeper into the subject of Fancy Pigeons than 

 any other author, and that he has seriously weighed every remark He has made 

 before committing his Volume to Press. 



THE MINING JOURNAL, March 5th, 1853. 



A Treatise on the Art of Breeding and Alanaging Tame, Domesticated and Fancy 

 Pigeons. By John Matthews Eaton. It would only detract from the value which 

 will doubtless be attached to the Publication by the " Fancier," and those 

 intimately interested in the question, were we to attempt any extracts : indeed, to 

 do the subject fair justice, the Treatise should be perused throughout, as the best 

 evidence of how much may be said on a subject which at first might appear of so 

 little significance. It should be observed that the Volume, in addition to the 

 Plates introduced, is accompanied by elaborately Coloured Engi^avings of the Pouter 

 the Carrier, the Beard, the Bald-head, the Black Mottle, and the Almond Pigeon, 

 which are executed in a superior manner, and in themselves the full Value of the 

 Treatise in question. In conclusion. We can recommend the Work to the perusal 

 of all interested in the Study, and would say to others, in the various departments 

 illustrative of Natural History or scientific uses, " Go Thou and do likewise." 

 THE GUARDIAN, March 16th, 1853. 

 A quaint, but clever and amusing little gentleman, by name Eaton, has, it seems, 

 devoted himself heartily to the rearing of '* Tame Pigeons,'' and the production of 

 those marvels of Head, Beak, Eye, Carriage or Shape, and Feather, which so 

 much attract the " Fancy." He has certainly a great deal to tell, and he tells it 

 in a curious but entertaining fashion. The Notes are very Original, and contain 

 a deal of Observations and curious Facts ; the half-dozen Prints which accompany 

 the Volume are excellent— they are really Lovely Birds. 

 JOHN BULL, July 30th, 1853. 



A Treatise on the Art of Breeding and Managing Tame, Domesticated and Fancy 

 Pigeons, carefully compiled from the best Authors, tvith Observations, containing all 

 that is necessary to be Tcnoxon of tame, domesticated, and fancy Pigeons. By John 

 Matthews Eaton, Author of the "Almond Tumbler." — Published for the Author. 

 This Treatise, on a subject equally interesting to the World of Science and to the 

 Fancy, and is well known among " Fanciers," has just received additional 

 Illustrations from a beautiful set of Plates, in which the Author has immortalized 

 several of the most singular and valuable specimens of the Pigeon Genus. Both 

 the Book and its Pictorial accompaniments are deserving of all commendations. 



