the
dryness of scientific forms and erudite details, the author presents
detached, but most entertaining, and often very suggestive articles on
a great variety of topics--from the "Wild Goose" to "Conscience in the
Cow,"--from the "Value of Lawyers in a Community" to the "Objections
to early Marriages." The book is, in fine, quite unique, and just such
a one as the farmer would like to pore over at his fireside on long
winter evenings.

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From the New-York Recorder.

"The Farm and the Fireside," is a most interesting and valuable work,
being a series of Sketches relating to Agriculture and the numerous
kindred arts and sciences, interspersed with miscellaneous moral
instruction, adapted to the life of the farmer.

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From the Germantown Telegraph.

We have looked through this work and read some of the "Sketches," and
feel a degree of satisfaction in saying that it possesses decided
merit, and will commend itself, wherever known, as a volume of much
social interest and entertainment. The sketches comprise "Country
Life" generally--some of them are just sufficiently touched with
romance to give them additional zest; while others are purely
practical, and relate to the farmer's pursuit. We regard it as a
valuable book, and are sorry our limits will not admit of bestowing
upon it such a notice as it really deserves.

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From Harper's New Monthly Magazine.

This work is a collection of miscellaneous sketches on the Romance of
Agriculture and Rural Life. Matters of fact, however, are not excluded
from the volume, which is well adapted for reading in the snatches of
leisure enjoyed at the farmer's fireside.

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From the True Democrat.

Dr. Blake's publications are all of a high order, and are doing a most
important work towards refining the taste, improving the intellect,
and rendering attractive the various branches of Agricultural
science. Indeed we know no author who has so successfully blended the
romantic, the rural and beautiful with the poetical, the useful, and
true, as has Dr. Blake. This is a peculiar feature of all his works.
His style is plain, simple, and perspicuous; and, with unusual tact
and judgment, he so manages to insinuate himself upon you, that you
are at once amused, delighted, and instructed with the subject he is
discussing. In thi