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would be found peculiarly useful, it is well known that many of our nobility and gentlemen are in the habit of rearing great numbers of pheasants annually, by means of the common domestic hen, from eggs laid by tame pheasants, in aviaries arranged for the purpose, and it frequently happens that where the number of pheasants is large, more eggs are laid than hens can be procured to cover.

This apparatus is the invention of Monsieur Lemare of Paris, and has been introduced to this country by Mr. Appleyard, of No. 9, Montague-Street, Russel Square, where it may be seen by any of our readers who take an interest in the subject.

A Correspondent from Oundle writes:-" Although the weather is severe enough for anything, we have had very little wild fowl up as yet. We have had a fair sprinkling of snipes about the springs and osiers. The floods have been higher this last autumn than I remember for many years, and we may expect another as soon as the frost breaks up. At one time, about the middle of December, an unusual quantity of woodcocks were found in our covers. A party in the forest klled eleven couples and a half in one day (a very rare occurrence in our woods.) I was told by one of the beaters that they must have seen nearly fifty couple. Nothing at all rare has been shot in our neighbourhood this winter. many of the wintry migratory birds as usual. show of game, taking the aggregate of our manors, but in some places it has been very thin. More hares than I remember for years I think. We have a fair sprinkle of birds left for breeding, and if we can preserve the game through the snow, and the breeding season should turn our favourable we need not despair.

I have not observed so
We have had a very fair

REVIEW OF NEW PUBLICATIONS.

THE FLY-FISHER'S ENTOMOLOGY: with coloured representations of the Natural and Artificial Insect, and Observations on Trout and Grayling Fishing. By Alfred Ronalds. Second edition. Longman and Co.

THIS is a new edition of Mr. Ronalds' book on fly-fishing and flymaking, to which we have already given our meed of praise in the number of the N. S. M. for September, 1836. The favour with which it was received at its first publication, the concurrent testimony of its worth by the generality of anglers, and above all, by that prince of the rod, Christopher North, added to the still more pleasing fact of the first edition being cleared off the bookseller's shelf, is the reason of the Fly-fisher's Entomology coming a second time before us. We cannot imagine a better.

The most novel and useful feature of the volume is that it offers us, upon the same leaf, representations (faithfully coloured) of the living and artificial flies; so that the angler need not confine himself to the imitation of an imitation, but has the natural figure to work up to; a very important point in all productions of art. Another distinguishing feature of the book before us is the original remarks on the nature and habits of fishes, as ascertained by personal observation on the banks of the Blythe, where Mr. Ronalds built a fishing hut, and passed many days in watching the practices of the trout and grayling of the stream, and in trying experiments on their senses of hearing, sight, &c. The originality and usefulness of those remarks cannot be too highly estimated. The best proof that they have been so to a considerable extent is the call for a second edition of the book: that their value may be still further extended, we soon hope to see testified by the appearance of edition No. 3.

THE FARMER'S ENCYCLOPEDIA, AND DICTIONARY OF RURAL AFFAIRS. By Cuthbert W. Johnson, Esq. Longman and Co. Part V.

THIS standard work pursues its career of usefulness, and realises the promise of its first numbers, in proving a most valuable acquisition to our "practical literature."

FINE ARTS.

CHANGING HORSES, and ALL RIGHT.

Engraved by J, Harris,
Fores, Piccadilly.

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Pictures by C. Henderson.

These are two most characteristic pictures of what our sons will know very little about from their own experience, if things progress in the same way, and as rapidly, in the next twenty years as they have done in the last ten. "Changing horses," indeed! It is a change they never dreamt of, to drag omnibuses with thirteen inside, and as many as you please out, AND NO MORE" to feed the monster Rail. These two plates are perfect in their style, and will prove an ornament to the sporting boudoirs of our readers.