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Review. 
Quid sit pulchrurn, quid turpe, quid utile, quid non.—H or. 
The Gentleman’s Stable Manual; or, a Treatise on the Construc¬ 
tion of the Stable. Also on the feeding and grooming of horses ; 
the hijgienic treatment of the side horse; on shoeing; on the 
management of the hunter ; and on equine diseases , with the 
most scientific modes of treatment. By William Haycock, 
V.S., and M.R.C.V.S. Illustrated with highly finished 
wood engravings. London: Routledge, Warnes, and 
Routledge, Farringdon Street, 1859, p. 528. 
We have given the title in full of this work, so that our 
readers may see the wide field it embraces, and be induced 
to read it for themselves, since our review of it must neces¬ 
sarily be a limited one. 
We are told by Mr. Haycock, that since the publication 
of his first treatise on the diseases and medical treatment of 
the horse—reviewed by us in a previous number—he has, on 
many occasions, received letters from numerous gentlemen 
desiring him to write on the proper construction of the stable, 
and on the superintendence and general management of the 
horse. Further, that “ this book has been written from a 
strong conviction that it is wanted. A plain, useful work, 
upon Veterinary Hygiene, and the practice of Veterinary 
Medicine—one that should be scientific, without any parade 
of science on the part of the author—one that should be in 
accordance with the advanced spirit of scientific research so 
characteristic of the age—has long been required.” 
Now, so far from objecting to all this, we hail it as pro¬ 
moting the advancement of veterinary science ; for we have 
before declared ourselves not to be of those who think that 
the best interests of the members of the profession lie in the 
propagation of diseases, or fostering the causes of their out¬ 
break, but rather in their prevention by the adoption of those 
