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THE RURAL NEW-YORKER 
June 3 
Book Reviews. 
Any of these books will be furnished at the stated 
price by the Rural Publishing Company. 
Land Draining, by Manly Miles.—In 
this little volume of 200 pages, the gen¬ 
eral scientific principles of draining are 
given, together with experiments show¬ 
ing their practical application. The 
relations of evaporation and drainage to 
rainfall are carefully treated. The ex¬ 
periments at Rothamsted, as well as 
those by Dr. Kedzie and different experi¬ 
ment stations are drawn upon for illus¬ 
trations, and the results are summarized 
in numerous tables. The discovery and 
advantage of draining are treated. The 
draining of different kinds of soils is dis¬ 
cussed, as well as the making of different 
kinds of drains, and practical directions 
for all the details of the work from the 
mapping out to the completed drains. 
The necessary tools are described and 
illustrated. There are too many scien¬ 
tific terms, perhaps unavoidable, in the 
first part of the book, but the practical 
part is plain enough for the most ordin¬ 
ary individual. Cloth, 5x734 inches, SI. 
Orange Judd Co. 
That which a man brings to the read¬ 
ing of a book will determine in great 
measure what he will get out of it. 
What he is will dominate his judgment of 
the work. Those who bring unthought¬ 
fulness or prejudice to the reading of the 
Rev. Washington Gladden’s “ Tools and 
the Man,” will find chaff. The thought¬ 
ful and candid will gain information, 
inspiration and zeal for justice, and a 
new admiration for the spirit of candor. 
They will gain a clear view of the con¬ 
nection between economics and Christian 
ethics, and a fair idea of the arguments 
used by the leaders of thought on both 
sides of the labor question. They will con¬ 
sider a lucid and elementary statement 
of the position of those who insist that 
in the community inheres the right to 
possess the land; they will gain a com¬ 
prehensive view of industrial profit-shar¬ 
ing as already on trial by hundreds of 
firms of every sort, on the continent, in 
England, and to some extent in this 
country. And all this in the space of a 
well-printed 200-page 12mo. “It is not 
the idle and thriftless that history con¬ 
sults when she shapes the great move¬ 
ments of the social order” is one of the 
author’s trenchant assertions. Touching 
the power of the people in the direction 
of any reform, he says : “ When All of-us 
see that it is best for All-of-us, All-of-us 
can say so, and have it so. I see no rea¬ 
son why All-of-us should allow Some-of- 
us to bleed The-rest-of-us.” Plain cloth, 
5x734 ; Houghton, Mitttin & Co., Boston 
The general reader is likely to feel 
some doubt as to the true character of 
Dinah Sharpe’s new book, “ My Horse ; 
My Love.” Certainly, however, he can¬ 
not deny the originality of conception 
and often of matter. 
The facts given are cast into the form 
of a talk between a Polish count, also a 
trained V. S., and a woman ; the part of 
the latter being to ask the briefest of 
questions, which serve merely to bring 
out the dissertations of this foreign 
count and horse doctor. One wonders 
whether, had his interlocutor been a 
man, the count would have tempered his 
assertions to some extent. For instance, 
whether he would have made this some¬ 
what remarkable assertion concerning 
the callosities on the inner sides of a 
horse’s legs; that they serve as vina- 
grettes to stimulate the wearied beast, 
having a distinct and pungent geranium 
flavor when wet. One wonders whether 
he would have seriously told a man that 
foxes are wont to escape the hunters 
through inhaling the stimulant of the 
odor of violets, from a bundle of perhaps 
25 hairs in the brush : whether he would 
have asserted that some of the Arab 
horses are of the color of the blood 
cherry, others green, others pink; 
whether he would not have slightly cur¬ 
tailed the 200 to 300 miles which he as¬ 
serts are often run in 12 consecutive hours 
by these fleet coursers ! 
The dialogue form has evidently a pur¬ 
pose, viz, of making these remarkable 
assertions emanate from the Polish count 
rather than from the author. It really 
detracts, rather than adds to the effect 
of the exciting adventures among the 
tents of the Arabs and “ air-drinkers.” 
There are some sympathetic chapters 
on the cruelties of docking, of the check 
and bearing reins, etc. But, primarily, 
the book aims to furnish a complete his¬ 
tory of the Arab horse in America. There 
is an ardent recital of the Arab’s beauties 
and his wonderful characteristics ; while 
throughout runs a strong undertone of 
love for man’s faithful helper and com¬ 
panion, the horse, be he Arab or but of 
plebeian stock. The reader may be sur¬ 
prised to learn how large a share Arabian 
blood has had in shaping the character¬ 
istics of all the great equine stock of 
this country for scores of years. Paper, 
3x734 inches, 155 pages; Orange Judd Co. 
A trinity of the laws of dress ; dress as 
related to hygiene, art, and morals ; this 
is the theme of Helen Gilbert Ecob, in 
her interesting book, The Well Dressed 
Woman. Her avowed purpose is not so 
much to say new things as to gather up 
in comprehensive and trenchant style 
what others have said on the subject of * 
dress reform. Yet, she goes even farther 
than many reformers. She makes vigor¬ 
ous war, not only upon the corset as an 
abomination and an instrument Of slow 
suicide, but also upon the various waists 
that have attempted by crying reform to 
foist themselves upon a half-convinced 
public. “The removal of the corset” 
she says “ means the removal of every 
waist and waist-band which restricts the 
free action of any organ of the body. We 
must not be deceived by the misnamed 
‘health corset,’ nor by the beguiling 
‘ Delsartean corset; ’ a health corset is 
impossible, and to associate the noble 
name of Delsarte with a garment of this 
kind is simply a base travesty of our 
modern system of advertising. The 
bodice, snugly fitted and thoroughly* 
boned, has the same effect as that pro¬ 
duced by the glove-fitting corset. The 
danger of whalebones is subtle.” 
The woman who would be well-dressed, 
it is contended, has no use for fashion 
plates. Art principles as applied to dress, 
the moral significance of dress, and other 
kindred topics are fully discussed. Prac¬ 
tical suggestions are put in the form of 
answers to the questions of the many 
who look dubiously at the new gospel of 
gracefulness and health with inquiry in 
their hearts if not on their lips. The 
book is illustrated with cuts, which 
strongly emphasize the points made. 
Altogether, she who wishes to know just 
what lengths the reformers have reached 
at the present time, cannot do better 
than to read this handy volume. 253 
pages; 534x7%; Fowler & Wells Co. 
Japanese Plums All Right. —C. A. 
H., Hudson, Ind., cannot make a mistake 
in planting Japanese plums, especially 
those of the Abundance variety, but let 
him not, as The Rural and others have 
done, confound the Abundance and 
the Botan. They are two very distinct 
and separate varieties and very different 
in regard to their value for profit. I place 
the Abundance at the head of the list, 
and would also mention the Botan, 
Spaulding and Ogon. Of the American 
varieties, the Niagara has succeeded best 
with me, though others equally promis¬ 
ing have just begun bearing. The J. T. 
Lovett Co., Little Silver, N. J., and 
Green's Nursery Co., Rochester, N. Y., 
give accurate descriptions of the Abund¬ 
ance plum in their catalogues. 1 have 
not seen their stock. e. e. u. 
Van Wert, O. 
One cent will carry this paper to your 
friend in any part of North America 
after you have written your name on the 
corner to show whom it is from. * 
MASSACHUSETTS CROPS 
at the world’s fair. 
Special Dispatch to the Boston Weekly Journal. 
Chicago, May 17 —All New England 
farmers visiting the World’s Fair will be 
greatly interested in a series of photo¬ 
graphs of Massachusetts crops that are 
on exhibition in the Massachusetts State 
Exhibit in the Agricultural Building. 
The State of Massachusetts, desiring 
to show what the old Bay State could do 
in the way of good farming, invited the 
Bradley Fertilizer Company to arrange 
an exhibit of photographs of crops grown 
on Massachusetts soil by the aid of Brad¬ 
ley’s Fertilizers. 
The Bradley Company, with their 
usual enterprise, have prepared a mag¬ 
nificent collection of 40 Bromides, each 
of which represents some Massachusetts 
crop as it looked when photographed by 
their artist. 
These beautiful prints are arranged in 
an elegant showcase, 20 feet long, and 
present a collection of farm pictures that 
will delight every Massachusetts man as 
being positive evidence that the soil of 
Massachusetts, when enriched by Brad¬ 
ley’s Standard Fertilizers, is capable of 
raising enormous crops of the finest 
quality. 
We extend our congratulations to the 
Bradley Fertilizer Company, as well as 
to the Massachusetts State Commission, 
on being able to exhibit such a wonder¬ 
ful presentation of farm crops grown on 
Massachusetts soil with Fertilizers manu¬ 
factured by a Massachusetts company, 
who, we understand, do the largest fer¬ 
tilizer business in the world. 
Hurrah for Massachusetts farmers and 
manufacturers ! May they always as no¬ 
tably, as in this instance, be associated 
together in advancing the fame and 
glory of the old Bay State.— Adv. 
In writing to advertisers, please always mention 
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