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Title: The Horse : its treatment in health and disease, with a complete guide to breeding, training and management
Year: 1905 (1900s)
Authors: Axe, J. Wortley
Subjects: Horses
Publisher: London : Gresham
Contributing Library: Webster Family Library of Veterinary Medicine
Digitizing Sponsor: Tufts University

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that it will prove a mostthorough piece of workmanship, and that among reference-books of its class it will holdthe first place, both as an authority and a source of instruction and entertainment. The encyclopedic method of treatment which has been adopted, remarks theAilicnciiitii, will be found of the greatest service, affording as it does to the reader theadvantages of the ordinary dictionary combined with those of the encyclopedia. The St. Janes Gazette says:— The encyclopedic part is executed with great skilland accuracy; and the genius of the editor has been exercised with the power and precisionof a hydraulic press upon the enormous masses of facts with which he has had to deal. Prospectus of any Book post free. The Gresham Publishing Company. The Cabinet ofIrish Literature: Selections from the Works of the ChiefPoets, Orators, and Prose Writers ofIreland. Edited by Charles A. Read, f.r.h.s.,and Katharine Tynan Hinkson. In 4 vol-umes, super-royal 8vo, cloth extra, gilt edges.
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As tliere is an Irish Nationality, so there is an Irish Literature, inwhich that Nationality has found expression. And what a magnifi-cent Literature it is! how brilliant the roll of Irish writers from Swift,Steele, and Goldsmith, to Sheridan, Grattan, Moore, and the score ofgifted men and women who are identified with the present renaissanceof Irish letters! The Cabinet of Irish Literature is an attempt to give everyIrishman, every Irish household, a share in the priceless treasureswith which the literary genius of the race has enriched mankind. It brings within the compass of a single great work a representativeselection of all that is best in Irish Literature. Not, be it said, theold Irish Literature in the old Irish tongue; of that most is unknownto the people itself, though a good deal of it, in translation, will befound in this book. By Irish Literature is meant the Literature readand understood by the Irishmen of the present day—the expressionof the ideas they really feel, of

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