Volume 1

Ceylon : a general description of the island, historical, physical, statistical. Containing the most recent information / by an officer, late of the Ceylon rifles.

  • Suckling, Horatio John.
Date:
1876
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Ceylon : a general description of the island, historical, physical, statistical. Containing the most recent information / by an officer, late of the Ceylon rifles. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    TWO WORKS ON THE DOC BY STONEHENGE. Just published, in Sfjiuire crown 8vo. with about 70 Illustrations engraved on Wood, price 15s. half-bound, THE DOG m health and disease : Compr.sing the l^atural History, Zoological ClassiAcation, and Varieties of the Dog, as well as the various modes of Breaking and using him for Hunting, Coursing, Shooting, &c.; And including the Points or CharacterisJkisa._of_T(lY DOGS. By STONEHENGE. SELECT CRITICAL OPIMIONS THIS IS a portly oetavo volume, handsomely illustrated with capital wood- cuts of the various breeds described. It treats of'the natural history oftlio dog, and oftho character, treatment, and performances of tlie various domes- ticated breeds. Stonehenge is a well-known autho- rity, especially on Coursing j and his chapter on the Greyhound is interesting and full, but not in more (detail than those on other hounds. A large portion of the hook is on the diseases of the dog and their treatniont. It is thus a vei’y useful, as well as an olegapt and ornamental work, GAi;i)E}fEKS* CnfiONiCLE, “ «TONEIIENGE begins witli the ^ natural history of the dog,and then enters into minute descriptions of every kind of dog, from the noblest and purest specimens of wolfhounds, deerhounds, &c., dowm to the pug, the poodle, and the toy terrier;—not H breed or even g half-breed that we have ever met with has been omitted. Whether the reader be a fancier of the bull, the mastiff, the Dandie Dinmont, or the lurcher — or whether he prefers the greyhound, the fox- hound, the pointer, or the spaniel—he will find here not oijily ample desoriptious of his pets, and numerous interesting anecdotes of their instinct anti sp.oeiiil qualities, but he may glean valuable in.siruetion as to the breeding, rearing, training, cropping, branding, and surgical treatment of every species of the canine race. Such a complete vcide- viecum as this of Stonehenge’s has long been vvuuted/' liKi.E's Live in Lonuon. “ TTUNCEFOnWAED, let all men know that dogs are Legion, and that the natural history of the various breeds, minutely detailed, and the best methods of reaidng, training, and using the dog in health, and of treating him in sicknes-s, liave now been put on full and pleasant record by Stonehenge,’’ Athenveum. “ THE work of Stonebenge will, we are . satisfied,- quite supersede in the sports- man’s study all previous works on dogs. It embodies all the scientific information conveyed in Mr. (Youatt’s admirable treatise, but it sets that information before the reader in a far more pleasant and sociable style. Nor is it only with the breeds tliat delight tite sportsman—the hound, the pointer, the setter, and the spaniel—that Stonehenge con- cerns liimse'f, Cuntni nihil a se alienum putat. Every man who loves the.companionship of a dog will here find not only every information as to purity of breed, but also most careful directions as to promoting the health and comfort of his four- footed dependent. We are fjlad to see that Stone- henge denounces the cruelties too often practised towards sporting dogs by dog-breakers, and occa- sionally by rough and badi-tcmpered keepers; show- ing that this system is impolitic and mischievous as w’cll as inlunnan, We must not opiit to mention the excellent engravings with winch the book is illnstratod. 1 u particular, the picture of a Iwarhound at page 83, and those of Mr, Morrison's Lady,— a very model of a smooth terrier,— Mr. Lakey’s mastiff Wallace, and Mr, Soames’s Sussex spaniels, are most lifelike and charaoteristic portraits, John Euee. Uniform with the above, price 21^, half'bound, STONEHENGE’S WORK ON THE GREYHOUND; BEING A TREATISE ON THE ART OK BREEDING, REAEING, AND TRAINING GREYHOUNDS FOR PUBUIC RUNNING ; THLIB LISEA6KS AND TBEATMLNT, “ DY tlic lovorg of the ^ longtails,’ tiie ap- pearance,inthi6 linndsoineand cmbellish.- ed form, of the Letters of ‘ Stonehenge,’ will be hailed with gratification. Tliclr value is enhanced by carchil revision and the numerous additions and alterations by the original writer, Thu addition of H series of exquisite ]>ortraits of greyhounds, all engraved to seine, will enable tlie courser to educate bis eye by tbe eontomplation of tlio most perfect form of this beautiful quadruped. It would he mere surplusage to recommeml the writings of ‘ Htonohonge’ on a subject which ha.s, strange to say, since tlie lime of Arrian, Innl no author worthy the name till the production of the present volume,’’ Morning Adveutisek, LONGMAN, GBEEN, and CO. Paternoster Bow. 18