12 SEPTEMBER 1863, Page 28

Notes on Shoeing Horses. By Lieutenant...Colonel Fitzwygram. Second edition. (Smith,

Elder, and CO—This is, if our memory serves us aright, a new edition of a small volume on which we had occasion to pronounce a favourable opinion not very long ago. Such being the case, we need not at present do more than merely express our satisfaction that the book has met with the success it deserved. The reader may, perhaps, remember that the principal change proposed by

Colonel Fitzwygram in the existing system of horse-shoeing is the universal employment of shoes that are turned up at the toe. This is, he maintains, the natural form of shoe, and is, therefore, better adapted than any other to the requirements of the animal