566 REVIEW. — ON THE VICES OF HORSES. 
the expression of the opinion of the united profession, good would 
necessarily arise. 
We cordially recommend to our readers, and to the profession 
generally, the suggestion of our friend Morton. It is like him, and 
worthy of him. When affairs are comfortably settled at head- 
quarters, we will return to the consideration of it. 
REVIEW. 
Ne quid falsi dicere audeat, ne quid veri non audeat. — Cicero. 
On the Vices of Horses. By Bracy Clark, F.L.S. Member of 
the Royal Institute of France, &c. 
We have perused this little work with very great pleasure. It 
seems to he full of the amusing and good-tempered anecdote of an 
observant, and talented, and kind-hearted veteran. Who has not 
occasionally felt the charm of this 1 
We were going to say O ! si sic omnia ! — but there is not a 
cross word in the whole of the book, and we will not utter one. 
Mr. Clark gives us a history of his attempts, successful and 
unsuccessful, to cure most of the vices of horses. Some of them 
are highly amusing as well as instructive. He speaks of crib- 
biting, swerving, rearing up before, running away, kicking, shying, 
and startling. We select the greater portion of what he says on 
crib-biting ; not as being the most valuable portion, but a subject 
that has often — some say, too often — come before us in our late 
numbers. It is completing the group. 
We cordially recommend the perusal of this pamphlet. 
“The crib-biting horse has generally a lean constricted appear- 
ance, the skin being drawn tight about the ribs, the hair staring 
and thready, and devoid of gloss, a sunken watery eye, or else 
too dry, the muscles of the face also, as well as the skin, drawn 
up with rigidness, and, when unemployed in eating his almost 
constant amusement is, to grasp with extended mouth the rail of 
the manger with his front teeth, then to draw himself up to it, as 
to a fixed point, by a general contraction of all the muscles of the 
head, neck, and trunk; at the same time this effort is attended with 
a grunting sound, apparently from air expelled by the mouth ; a 
relaxation succeeds, and then a new effort, slavering the manger 
very much with the tongue, for, as the mouth is held wide open, 
and the jaws distended, the saliva naturally takes this direction. 
“The horse that has contracted this unsightly habit grows lean, his 
