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pant quack. We are lempwa lo maice mese remarks after pernsmg 

 a recent American work by Professor Law, of Cornell Univeisity 

 No work in the English language which we have seen comes sc 

 nearly up to our ideal of what a veterinary manual for stock owners 

 should be as this little volume. Ostensibly written for American 

 farmers, this work will be found useful to all who have the care o^ 

 live stock in the Old as well as the New World. The need for it k 

 of course more in America than in England where the aid of skilled 

 vrtorinary surgeons is more readily obtained than on the other side 

 of the Atlantic, where they are few and far between. The wori- 

 thonmghly attains the object for which it was written. The Ian 

 guaga used is of the simplest kind. All technical terms are explain 

 ed. There is none of the jargon of the pedant, too common in mod 

 ern veterinary works. The diseases of animals are classified, the 

 symptoms, treatment, prevention and cure given in intelligible En 

 glish. Carefully prepared illustrations accompany the text whera 

 necessary, and it contains an admirably prepared appendix of the ac- 

 tion and doses of medicines recommended, and withal an ample in 

 dex. It combines a veterinary dictionary and manual and its in- 

 structions are clear and concise. AH the common diseases incident 

 to animals in this country will be found described in its pages, for 

 Professor Law, though an American by adoption, had extended ex- 

 perience when residing in his native country as Professor of Veteri- 

 nary Science in the Vte Albert Veterinary College, Bayswater, and 

 the New Veterinarj College, Edinburgh, where he was a colleague 

 of Professor John GTamgee's. Such a work as " The Farmer's Vete- 

 rinary Adviser " deserves an extended circulation in this kingdom, 

 and we should be glad to sec an English edition of the work brought 

 out under the auspice- of some one of our enterprising publishers on 

 this side of the Atlantic. — The Country, Ttondon, Eng. 



