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NOTICES OF AUTHORS. 



1. The Forester's Guide, hy Mr Monteath. 



This volume is the work of a man of some expe- 

 rience, and of considerable observation and ingenui- 

 ty, not much assisted by botanical or physiological 

 science or literary attainment, which he, indeed, dis- 

 claims. His principal forte, and what he seems to 

 have been most engaged ^\ith, is oak-coppice — his 

 besetting sin, cutting and cropping. His directions 

 on rearing and cutting coppice may be sensible ; — 

 those who msh to practise the sacrilege of destroy- 

 ing young oak- forest, we refer to him, as we have 

 always had a horror at seeing a beautiful saphng 

 imtimeously cut down, like an American bullock for 

 its hide. At present, and while peace continues, it 

 is very easy to obtain plenty of foreign bark, and 

 also oak-timber, for consumption, at a very cheap 

 i-ate, for this reason — and also, because, in the event 

 of wa7\ the price of these articles would be nearly 

 doubled — we would request the holders of coppice, 

 and, indeed, of all growing oak-timber, to pause 

 in their operations of cutting, and not to sacrifice 

 their property so unprofitably, to their own ulti- 

 mate disadvantage, and also to the detrivient of 



