REVIEW. 
617 
My advice to you is, don’t wait for legislative help, although 
potent when you can get it , but get up a committee for a peri- 
odical publication in the Times newspaper, of all the legally 
qualified members in the United Kingdom, which must be 
supported by annual subscription. 
Shame be it said, quackery even yet rides rampant in some 
high places, and it has, I fear, a great range among our flocks 
and herds. 
How are noblemen or cultivators of large breadths of land 
to know, at such a critical moment as the invasion of a pest, 
the legitimate from the illegitimate practitioner? Two 
minutes’ reference to the file of the Times will clear up the 
point, by which simple movement many scientific and de- 
serving men may become installed in honorable posts for 
life, to the exclusion of the illiterate and undeserving. 
311, Regent Street; October, 1853. 
REVIEW. 
Quid sit pulchrum, quid turpe, quid utile, quid non. — H or. 
The Deteriorated Condition of our Saddle-horses, the 
Causes and the Remedy. The State of our Cavalry, and 
the Imperfect System under which this Force, and that 
of our Army generally, is Administered. Hatchard, London, 
1853 ; small 8vo, pp. 113. 
The little anonymous work before us points out the exis- 
tence of a degeneration we cannot deny, alleges reasons how 
it comes to exist, and offers remedies for its restitution, and 
restoration to that condition of things which existed before 
the grievance came into operation. The grievance is “ the 
deterioration of our SADDLE-HORSEsf’a fact, we believe, 
too notorious for us to pretend to doubt or dispute, as ex- 
isting, not in this country alone, but likewise in the sister 
kingdom (Ireland) as well ; a country out of which, of late 
years, more than once, we have succeeded in procuring some 
of the best of our horses for the recruitment of the cavalry. 
Could any doubt be raised on the score of any falling-off in 
good horses, hackneys in particular, in general use, there is 
evidence enough in our army of the comparative deprecia- 
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