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rant quack. We are tempted to make these remarks after perusing 

 a recent American work by Pi-nfessor Law, of Cornell University. 

 No work in the BnoJish language which we have seen comes so 

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

 should be as this little volume. Ostensibly written for American 

 farmers, this work will be found useful to all who liave the care of , 

 Uve stock in the Old as well as the New World. The need for it is 

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

 v( ti.'iinary surgeons is more readily obtained than on the other side 

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

 lho/-ougl)ly attains the object for which it was written. The lan- 

 guage used is of the simple.-it kind. All technical terms are explain- 

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

 ei'n veterinary works. Tlie diseases of animals are classified, the 

 symptoms, treatment, prevention and cure given in inteUigible En 

 glish. Carefully prepared illustrations accompany the text where 

 necessary, and it conlJains 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. All 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 late Albert Veterinary College, Bayswater, and 

 the New'Vetei'inary College, Edinburgh, where he was a colleague 

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

 rinary Adviser" deserves an extended circulation in this kingdom, 

 anil wo should be glad to see 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, London, Eng. 



