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REVIEWS. 
Quid sit pulchrum, quid turpe, quid utile, quid non.— Hob. 
Traitc de Marechalerie Veterinaire; comprenant V etude de la 
Ferrure du Ckeval et des autres Animaux Domestiques , sous le 
rapport des defauts de V Aplomb, des Defectuosites , et des Mala- 
dies du Pied. Par A. Rey, Professeur du Clinique, Patho- 
logie Chirurgicale Jurisprudence, et Marechalerie a l’ecole 
Veterinaire de Lyon. Lyon , 1852. 8vo, pp. 498. In- 
tricate des gravures. 
A Treatise on Farriery ; comprising the Art of Shoeing Horses and 
other Domestic Animals, in relation to defects of Aplomb, Mal- 
formations, and Diseases of the Foot. By A. Rey, Professor 
of Clinique, Surgical Pathology, Jurisprudence, and Far- 
riery at the Veterinary School of Lyons. Lyons , 1852. 
Illustrated with woodcuts. 
{Continued from p . 139.) 
Quitting the anatomy and physiology of the foot, M. Rey 
conducts us into the workshop, or, as we with less precision 
than the French call it, the forge : they confining the word 
forge to the furnace or fire itself. Nor does he leave this de- 
partment of manufacture of shoes, and adaptation and fixture 
of them to the feet, before he has particularised and described, 
not only every fitment and utensil of the farriePs shop, but 
actually given accounts of the various kinds of fuel used 
therein, and the various kinds and qualities of the iron 
whereof the shoes are made. Herein consists one grand 
difference between a French and an English author : while the 
latter confines his inquiries immediately to the naked subject 
of which he is treating ; the former will make discursive sal- 
lies into every subject directly or indirectly connected with 
his main one, so as to leave his reader in need of no collateral 
information that can in anywise conduce to its elucidation. The 
chapter {du fer) on iron, we cannot pass over without advert- 
ing to some few facts, which, while they are far from being 
