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Quid sit pulchrum, quid turpe, quid utile, quid non.—H or. 
General Remarks on Stables, and Examples of Stable Fittings. 
With illustrations. By W. Miles, Esq., &c. London : 
Longman, Green, Longman, and Roberts. 
In our review of this work there will be seen many 
points in which we are compelled to differ from the author; 
nevertheless, considered as a whole, we find much in its 
pages worthy the perusal of those who are about to erect 
new stables, or to alter old ones, so as to make them more 
suitable for the accommodation of horses. 
The public cannot but feel indebted to Mr. Miles for the 
trouble he has taken in getting up this, in many respects, 
useful book. Praise is due to every one who endeavours to 
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ameliorate the sufferings of the poor horse, an animal who 
not only forms a large portion of the wealth of this and 
other nations, but also, without the aid of a Rarey, docilely 
contributes in so many ways to our comfort. Surely, therefore, 
he has a claim upon us for good lodging and kind treatment. 
To treat a horse, or indeed any other animal, cruelly, 
would be making us the tyrants, and not the lords merely, 
of the creatures over which it is said we have dominion. 
What must be the feeling of any man who, day after day 
and year after year, witnesses the noble horse, the native 
of the desert and the prairie, where— 
“With flowing tail, and flying mane, 
Wide nostrils never stretch’d by pain, 
Mouth bloodless to the bit or rein, 
And feet that iron never shod, 
And flank unscar’d by spur or rod,” 
tied by the head to the further end of a narrow stable, 
unable, as the author justly observes in his introduction, 
to turn his head to ascertain if friend or foe approaches 
him ? To think that so useful an animal should have his 
comforts so much curtailed, cannot be otherwise than painful 
