74 A GLANCE AT THE VETERINARIAN.” 
nation for this among the Contents^ I at length pause at Edi¬ 
torship and Correspondence, page 45,” and thither I go. 
Naturally expecting something new,” and looking for it with 
that sort of earnestness with which our minds are too apt to run 
after novelty, if it be only for “ novelty’s sake,” I cannot but 
confess I found myself a little baulked and disappointed, when 
I read—VVe have waited until the printer was outrageous, 
hoping that we might have been able to announce the completion 
of arrangements y &c.;” and at being referred, at the very page 
( 45) to which I had so ardently turned, to the February Num¬ 
ber” for ‘‘ further information,” as the official scribes have it. 
Well!” thought I to myself, “ this is a little vexatious, to be 
sure, to be referred to a No. that (like an unborn child) exists 
yet but in embryo, and whose time of delivery, reckoning ac¬ 
cording to the calendar, will not arrive for a month to come ; 
and, to add to my disappointment, it appears here is only an 
apology” offered for the usual bonne bouche —the marrow-bone 
of the feast—the leading article.” This is rather too bad, 
Messrs. P. and Y. However, let us try back;” turn again 
to page 1, and see how in thatch sequent you comport yourselves, 
and what amends you make us, your gentle readers,” for such 
a stroke of disappointment—grievous vexatious stroke as it is I 
Do not imagine, from what may follow, that I am going to set 
up for a critic, or an arbiter, on any matters on which I may, 
in my arrogance, presume to make a comment or so: I am by 
no means equal to the function • and were I, I would not under¬ 
take it, lest I might make enemies in quarters, where I trust I 
have, at present, friends. I am going to amuse myself simply 
in making some loose annotations as I read on— en passant; and 
send them afterw^ards to you to expunge, or not, as they may 
turn out worthy or unworthy of a prolonged existence. 
Mr, Youatt’s Lecture on the Lungs. 
Division of the Lungs. —It is curious to observe, and it amuses 
the mind to contemplate, how diversified and even frolicsome 
dame Nature often appears to be in what anatomists style the 
division” of organs. She has divided or cleft the brain, the 
lungs, the liver, the kidney, and several other glandular bodies ; 
and she has done this according to different fashions in different 
animals, at the same time preserving that inflexible uniformity 
in each individual species, which points out to us that it was 
done by design —not the result of any accident. And this it is 
that sets us to work to think about it—to seek the end she had 
in view. Mr. Youatt tells us—The principal intention of these 
