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editor’s table. 
The Western Reserve Magazine of Agri¬ 
culture and Horticulture. Edited by F. R. 
Elliott. Published by M. C. Younglove, at Cleve¬ 
land, Ohio. Price SI a year.—This is a new peri¬ 
odical of 24 pages octavo, neatly got up and illus¬ 
trated. The articles in this first number are mostly 
on Horticulture, and are written with care and 
ability. We see that Dr. Kirtland is a principal 
contributor. There are few in the United States 
who have devoted more attention to fruits than he 
has, and none more capable of writing upon this 
growingly interesting subject. We wish this Maga¬ 
zine all possible success; but as to its desire to ex¬ 
change, we shall not comply with it so long as it 
extracts from the Agriculturist without credit. It has 
taken four little articles in this first number from our 
foreign news department, without naming the source 
from whence derived; thus making them appear 
like editorials in its own pages. 
Library of Choice Reading. — Under this title, 
Wiley & Putnam, 161 Broadway, are getting out a se¬ 
ries of pocket volumes (price 37£ to 50 cents each), 
which demand attention. These are reprints from the 
best works in their class recently published in Europe. 
The works are handsomely got up, and are printed in 
a type that one can read with comfort, forming a per¬ 
fect contrast to the vile printing that recently flooded 
the land, under the title of cheap literature, and which 
is now generally thrown aside as so much waste 
paper. We heartily commend the enterprise of Messrs. 
Wiley & Putnam to public favor. 
The Farmer’s and Emigrant’s Hand Book ; 
being a Full and Complete Guide for the Farmer and 
Emigrant. Comprising the Clearing of Forest and 
Prairie Land, Gardening, Farming generally, Farriery, 
Cookery, and the Prevention and Cure of Diseases. 
By Josiah T. Morehall. pp. 492. Price $1. D. Ap¬ 
pleton &' Co., 200 Broadway.—The above is a pretty 
ambitious title, nevertheless the book will be found 
highly useful, though not in as enlarged a sense as 
the author would lead us to infer. It is almost en¬ 
tirely a compilation from the agricultural periodicals 
of the day, and is designed more particularly for the 
emigrant than the farmer. It is neatly got up, and 
handsomely embellished. 
Every Man his own Farrier: Containing the 
Causes, Symptoms, and most approved Methods of 
Cure of the Diseases of the Horse. By Francis Cla- 
ter and his son John Clater. With Notes and Addi¬ 
tions, by J. S. Skinner. Lea & Blanchard. Philadel¬ 
phia.—This work has passed through twenty-eight 
editions in England, and is now given, for the first time 
we believe, to the American public. It is a useful 
work, and ought to be in the possession of all who 
keep horses. The few notes Mr. Skinner has added 
are judicious ; but we wish he had gone further, and 
simplified some of the recipes, and made them easier 
to be understood by the farmer and groom. 
Narrative of the United States’ Exploring 
Expedition ; during the Years 1838, ’39, ’40, ’41 and 
’42. By Charles Wilkes, U S. N, Commander of the 
Expedition. In Five Volumes octavo, of about 450 
pages each. Illustrated with 300 handsome wood 
cuts and Maps. Price $10. Lea & Blanchard, Phila¬ 
delphia.—Few things have tended more to ennoble us 
as a nation, than the sending out this Exploring Ex¬ 
pedition. The discovery of a new continent in the 
southern polar regions is one of the brilliant results 
of it, and the accumulation of a vast fund of scientific 
and geographical knowledge. Agriculture, we are 
glad to see, was not forgotten by the accomplished 
commander, as we intend to show our readers here¬ 
after by various interesting extracts from the work 
under notice. The narrative is pleasingly written, 
and abounds with hazardous adventures, scientific 
details, and racy descriptions of savage nations and 
scenery. We have had a few hours’ leisure only as 
yet to turn over the pages of the Expedition, and can¬ 
not at present speak of it more particularly. The 
work is an honor to the country, and highly deserving 
a perusal. 
Messrs. Lea & Blanchard have also for sale the beau¬ 
tiful edition in Imperial octavo, five volumes and an At¬ 
las, containing 64 large and highly finished line engrav¬ 
ings, embracing scenery, portraits, manners, customs, 
&c—forty-seven exquisite steel vignettes worked 
among the letter-press ; about two hundred and fifty 
finely executed wood-cut illustrations; fourteen large 
and small maps and charts, and nearly 2,600 pages of 
letter-press. Price $25. Also, still on hand — a 
few copies of the edition in imperial quarto, like 
those printed for distribution by order of Congress. 
Price $60. 
London Quarterly Review for March. —For¬ 
eign Quarterly & Edinburgh Reviews far 
April. —We avail ourselves of the opportunity afforded 
by the recent re-issue of these well-known periodicals, 
to draw the attention of our readers more particularly 
to the valuable nature of Messrs. Scott & Co.’s repub¬ 
lications. Independently of the excellent articles upon 
agricultural subjects which they frequently contain, 
they are peculiarly adapted to meet the requirements 
of our country friends. We are by no means inclined 
to concede that the farmer should be so completely 
engrossed by his occupation as to sever all connection 
from the world of letters ; yet we are bound to admit 
that his labors are so incessant as to allow but little 
time for relaxation and mental improvement. Now 
here is the very thing that he wants—the reviews and 
magazines published in this series will keep him in¬ 
formed of the progress of literature, science and art , 
there is no formality, no repulsiveness in the style in 
which the subjects are handled : and indeed the arti¬ 
cles frequently embody a more lucid and popular view 
of the matter in hand than the books which they 
ostensibly review. In fact they give a summary but 
comprehensive account of the present state of know 
ledge in all the varied departments of human inquiry. 
Instruction and amusement are so happily blended, 
that the mind will be cheered and gratified, while the 
bodily fatigue is forgotten. We are convinced that 
our country readers will find these excellent periodi 
cals second to none—our own of course excepted- 
either for quality of matter or cheapness. The Re¬ 
views and Blackwood’s Magazine, which constitute 
the series, supply 4000 pages of reading matter in the 
course of a year, and are furnished at the trifling cost 
of $10 per year. Of course any can be had separately. 
Agricultural Agency at the South. —N. G. 
North, Esq., senior editor of the South Western 
Farmer, proposes himself as an Agricultural Agent 
for both sections of the United States. His residence 
is Raymond, Miss. He will make an extensive tour 
this summer in the south, and then find his way north 
the last of August, to attend our State and other agri¬ 
cultural shows at Utica and elsewhere. His object 
will be to examine stock, implements, seeds, nurseries, 
&c., &c. It will give us pleasure to be the medium of 
any communications from our friends to Mr. North. 
He and Dr. M. W. Philips, his associate in the con¬ 
duct of the S. W. Farmer, have been appointed special 
agents of the American Agriculturist. 
Colman’s European Agricultural Survey. 
—We gave the contents of Part Third in our last 
number, since which it has been issued from the press. 
The perusal has fulfilled our anticipations, and so far 
as regards practical matter, we think it the best of tile- 
series yet published. We were particularly interested 
by his account of the Agricultural Schools in Great 
Britain and Ireland. 
