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JOHN J. THOMAS.

THE AMERICAN FRUIT CULTURIST. Containing Practical Directions for the Propagation and Culture of Fruit Trees in the Nursery, Orchard, and Garden. With Descriptions of the Principal American and Foreign Varieties cultivated in the United States. Second edition. Illustrated with 430 accurate figures. Crown 8vo. Cloth extra, bev. bds., gilt back. $3.00.

We have read hundreds of criticisms on this book, and they unanimously pronounce it the most thorough, practical, and comprehensive work published. The engravings are not copies of old cuts from other books, but are mainly original with the author.

J. H. WALSH, F.R.C.S. ("Stonehenge.")

THE HORSE IN THE STABLE AND THE FIELD: his Management in Health and Disease. From the last London edition, with copious Notes and Additions, by Robert McClure, M.D., V.S., author of "Diseases in the American Stable, Field, and Farm-yard," with an Essay on the American Trotting Horse, and suggestions on the Breeding and Training of Trotters, by Ellwood Harvey, M.D. With 80 engravings, and full-page engravings from photographs from life. Crown 8vo. Cloth, extra, bev. bds. $2.50.

"This Americanizing of 'Stonehenge' gives us the best piece of Horse Literature of the season. Old horsemen need not be told who 'Stonehenge' is in the British Books, or that he is the highest authority in turf and veterinary affairs. Add to these the labors of such American writers as Dr. McClure and Dr. Harvey, with new portraits of some of our most popular living horses, and we have a book that no American horseman can afford to be without."—Ohio Farmer, Cleveland, April 24, 1869.

"It sustains its claim to be the only work which has brought together in a single volume, and in clear, concise, and comprehensive language, adequate information on the various subjects of which it treats."—Harper's Magazine, July, 1869.

THADDEUS NORRIS.

AMERICAN FISH CULTURE. Giving all the details of Artificial Breeding and Rearing of Trout, Salmon, Shad, and other Fishes. 12mo, illustrated. $1.75.

"'Norris's American Fish Culture' published in this city by Porter & Coates, is passing around the world as a standard. Mr. Norris's authority will be quoted beside the tributaries of the Ganges, as already by those of the Hudson, the Humber, and the Thames. The English publishers of the book are Sampson Low, Son & Co.: and a late number of the Athenæum, after an attentive review of Mr. Norris's methods, concludes thus: 'Mr. Norris has rendered good service to the important subject of fish-culture by the present publication; and, although his book goes over ground (or water rather) occupied to a great extent by English writers on fish culture, it contains several particulars respecting this art as practised in the United States, which are valuable, and may be turned to profitable account by our pisciculturists.'"—Philadelphia Evening Bulletin.

THE AMERICAN ANGLER'S BOOK. Embracing the Natural History of Sporting Fish, and the Art of Taking Them. With Instructions in Fly Fishing, Fly Making, and Rod Making; and Directions for Fish Breeding. To which is added Dies Piscatoriæ; describing noted fishing places, and the pleasure of solitary fly fishing. New edition, with a supplement, containing a Description of Salmon Rivers, Inland Trout Fishing, &c. Illustrated with eighty engravings. 8vo, cloth extra. $5.50.

"Mr. Norris has produced the best book on Angling that has been published in our time. If other authors would follow Mr. Norris's example, and not write upon a subject until they had practically mastered it, we should have fewer and better works. His volume will live. It is thoroughly instructive, good-tempered, and genial."—Philadelphia Press.