EDITORIAL REMARKS. 
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Having thus long lingered on the threshhold, what chance have 
we of giving the slightest sketch of the contents of the volume 1 
None, and therefore we will not attempt it; and with a few words 
as to the getting up of the volume we must conclude. We are de¬ 
lighted to see the aid of the fine arts enlisted in the cause of science. 
“ Amicus Plato,” we love science; but we love the fine arts also. 
With two other volumes only in the veterinary library do we put 
this on a par—Coleman and Turner—both on the foot of the horse. 
The lithographs are accurately and carefully drawn, and, where 
the subjects have been favourable, present a most truth-like ap¬ 
pearance ; and this, aided by—with some one or two exceptions, 
where a little exaggeration is perceptible—very delicate and 
artistic colouring, brings the specimen most fully before us. We 
have here not the mere book-maker, not the poor wight writing 
for his daily bread in his lonely garret, but the man of letters, in¬ 
dulging in the laudable desire of coming before the public in a 
form that may, perhaps, but indifferently fill his pocket, but must 
secure the respect and esteem of all those who wish to become 
familiar with the nicer shades of their profession, and are desirous 
of seeing the fruits of that profession scientifically gathered and 
elaborately and permanently recorded. 
THE VETERINARIAN, MAY 1, 1849. 
Ne quid falsi dicere audeat, ne quid veri non audeat.— Cicero. 
The unusual number of “ Original Communications” which 
have poured in upon us for entry in our Journal for the present 
month, coupled with the unusual length to which three of them in 
particular run, have shut out from our pages our “ Extracts,” as 
well as other matters of interest. Among other articles has arrived 
a “ Review;” with which, in consequence of its object being a 
veterinary work better known to us than most literary works are, 
we have, in truth, hardly in our own mind known what to do. Were 
we to refuse insertion to it, we should offend a gentleman who, 
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