22 REVIEW THE BREEDING AND ECONOMY OF LIVE STOCK 
shelving of crust as possible, to avoid, as Mr. B Clark wished, 
the constraint of nails. 
Out of courtesy to a foreign gentleman, I shall not go further 
into this subject. He has certainly been finding fault with a 
system that has not, as yet, had any trial but in the French army 
and by myself; I should like, therefore, to see what others 
think of it who have practised it, or may do so. 
REVIEW. 
Quid sit pulchrum, quid turpe, quid utile, quid non. — Hon. 
The Breeding and Economy of Live Stock, being the Results of 
Forty Years 1 Practical Experience in the Management and Disposal 
of Cattle , Horses , Sheep , and Pigs. By James Dickson, Cattle 
Dealer. Edinburgh : Adam and Charles Black, North Bridge, 
1851. 
This will be found a very useful little work, one especially 
adapted as a manual for the young farmer and student vete- 
rinarian ; and it has issued fort a propos from the press — 
albeit, it is post-dated — being at a time of year when the 
Cattle Show and the Christmas Smithfield Markets, together, 
afford peculiar opportunities for viewing and examining speci- 
mens of some of the choicest and purest breeds of live stock — 
horses excepted — in the kingdom ; we might say, in the world. 
The work boasts of no historical research, neither does it enter 
into minute detail of the characters and properties of the different 
breeds; yet does it severally mark and distinguish the varieties 
with that boldness of outline which will enable the tyro to re- 
cognise them, while it appends such descriptions to each and 
either of them as puts him summarily in possession of a know- 
ledge of those qualities for which they are, respectively, most 
held in notoriety or estimation. In these bold and graphic 
sketches it is that we trace “ the results of forty years’ practical 
experience ;” and, without heeding the style or diction jn which 
