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plaintiff had purchased her, and this was the defence 
relied on. 
Mr. Justice Talfourd having summed up the evidence, the 
jury returned a verdict for the plaintiff for £78 16*. 
REVIEWS. 
Quid sit pulchrum, quid turpe, quid utile, quid non. — Hon. 
Veterinary Medicines : their Actions and Uses. Bv 
Finlay Dun, V.S., Lecturer on Materia Medica at the 
Edinburgh Veterinary College, 8vo, pp. 4d2. Sutherland 
and Knox, Edinburgh, 1854. 
So near akin as the work now upon our table manifestly is 
to the one which occupied our attention last month, it 
might be expected, we should seize the present occasion to 
institute comparisons between them ; and in so doing, draw 
such inferences as their respective merits and demerits 
appeared to warrant. We have, however, chalked out in our 
mind no such course to pursue ; but, rather intend to avoid 
comparisons, which are but too apt to prove u odious and to 
let the present, as we did the last work under “ review,” stand 
upon its own bottom, i. e speak for itself ; and thereby afford 
our readers an opportunity of judging for themselves, and 
coming to their own conclusions concerning the two. 
Mr. Dun, who is already known to us as the successful 
author of some “ Prize Essays,” read before the Agricultural 
Societies of England and Scotland, comes out, on the present 
occasion, for the first time, as the author of a work whose 
title almost would argue its pretensions to stand upon the 
same library-shelf with the standard productions of our art, 
did not its merits claim that honour without fear of rejection. 
We may henceforth rid our libraries of a host of valueless 
books “on Farriery,” — we live in an age when such are worth 
no more than the paper they are printed upon ; while w f e 
cherish rare and choice productions, like the one before us, as 
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