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Recent Agricnllural Puhlicatioiis. 
“ complete ” manures, wliich are capable of profitable application only 
upon such soils as happen to lack all the elements of fertility. 
A noticeable feature of the work, and one that adds much to its 
value, is the wealth of illustration derived from the experimental 
stations, not only of France, but of England, Germany, and else- 
where. The field experiments at Rothamsted and Woburn are 
many times referred to, and M. Deheirain possesses in a high degree 
the happy faculty of selecting from the mass of material at his dis- 
posal the practical results which most appropriately bear upon each 
of the many problems which he seeks to solve. 
THE EXTERNAL FORM OF THE HORSE.' 
The appearance of an English translation of the well-known work of 
Goubaux and Barrier is an event of much interest to horse-breeders 
and horse-owners, to the majority of whom the volume must have 
remained in its original form a sealed book. Thanks, however, to Dr. 
Harger’s careful translation, the volume is now accessible to English- 
speaking populations in all parts of the world, and thus appeals to a 
far wider, and to a certainly not less appreciative, audience than it 
could possibly command in its French dress. 
The primary object whicli MM. Goubaux and Barrier had in 
view was, as they stated in the preface to the first edition, to select 
from the science which treats of the rational improvement of domestic 
animals — the science of Zootechnics — so much as bears upon “ the 
consideration of the external form and characteristics of the horse 
in their connection with his mechanical aptitudes and his commercial 
value.” The translator, whilst lamenting the deficiency in English 
literature of any volume which studies the horse exclusively from 
the exterior, and discusses his external form and cliaracters with 
relation to his mechanical aptitudes and his commercial value, adds 
that in order to remedy this defect he selected “ the French veteri- 
nary text-book par excellence.” In making this choice he admits 
that he was influenced no less by the reputation and standing of its 
authors than by the originality, exactness, and fulness with which 
they treat the subject. 
The term exterior, as applied to the horse, appears to have been 
used by veterinarians only since the latter part of the last century, 
dating from the period when Bourgelat published his book upon the 
external form of the horse, in 1768, six years after the inauguration 
' The Exterior of the Horse. By Armand Goubaux, Honorary Director of 
the Veterinary School of Alf ort, and Gustave Barrier, Professor of Anatomy 
and the Exterior at the Veterinary School of Alfort, France. Second edition. 
Pages xxviii -t- 91G, with 346 figures and 34 plates, by G. Nicolet, Librarian at 
the Veterinary School of Alfort. Translated and edited by Simon J. J. 
Harger, V.M.D., Professor of Anatomy and Zootechnics in the Veterinary 
Department of the University of Pennsylvania. J. B. Lippincott Company : 
Philadelphia, and 10 Henrietta Street, Covent Garden, London. 1892. 
