REVIEW- cc ADVICE TO PURCHASERS OF HORSES.” 117 
“ The numerous publications which have of late years appeared 
upon ‘ the Horse/ and the pompous manner with which they have 
generally been heralded into existence by puffing publishers, and, 
above all, the quantity of trash with which these volumes have 
invariably been filled, led us to take up the above ‘ Advice’ with 
some reluctance, and with a decided prejudice against it. We 
have been, however, most agreeably disappointed in this instance. 
The author of it, Mr. Stewart, of the Andersonian University, 
Glasgow, seems to be a very sensible fellow, and handles his sub¬ 
ject in a very masterly strain. He has evidently, from the man¬ 
ner in which he writes, practised the healing art he so feelingly 
describes. We would venture to assert, that there is not one of 
the thousand Advices, contained in this little work, but Mr. 
Stewart gives from his actual performance. It is melancholy 
to think, that the whole reading public (for everybody now 
has to do with a horse, in one way or another) should be led 
by the nose in so important a matter as the confused and 
diffuse scribbler in the Library of Useful (Useless) Knowledge, or 
Hind, or White (who seem to know nothing of what they 
write), or that they should be guided by such old wives 
as Drs. Clater and Percival. Thanks to Mr. Stewart and his 
modest little volume, the days of these worthies are gone by; 
and, in all time coming, he will be the consulted physician in 
all matters connected with, or concerning, that valuable domes¬ 
tic animal, the horse. We would recommend no person to pur¬ 
chase a horse, without having purchased and perused Mr. Stew¬ 
art’s Book of Advice ; and if, after doing so, he is still deceived 
by horse jockeyism, we will pronounce him the most incurable 
blockhead on the face of the earth—and we would recommend 
every person who has a horse, or who is in the habit of using a 
horse, to read this book, that he may neither be made to lose nor 
abuse it by bad treatment. This is, without exception, the most 
complete, the most concise, and the most popularly written medi¬ 
cal volume, that we have fallen in with for many years, and that 
is saying certainly a great deal—but by no means more than we 
are warranted in saying of Mr. Stewart and his book of Advice. 
Glasgow : W. R. M ( Phun , printer and publisher ” 
That this proceeded from the pen of Mr. Stewart we cannot 
for a moment believe. We would fain hope that he was igno¬ 
rant of its existence. That ignorance, however, no longer re¬ 
mains, and we call upon him, as he regards his future acceptance 
among his veterinary brethren—among the professors of the 
Andersonian University—and, indeed, among honourable men, 
at once and unequivocally to disown it. If the book is no 
longer his property, let the disgrace fall where it ought; and let 
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