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 Rh. It seems to prove that ‘Impecuniosus,’ practical and enterprising as he was, was not far wrong when he still craved for some writing out of the ’ordinary follow-my-leader style,’ which might ‘throw some light on a subject hitherto veiled in obscurity, viz., the horse’s foot.’ We should only be too glad to learn that this active-minded gentleman is still in the land of the living, and that writing containing the ‘original ideas’ which he, being so far ahead of the ‘ruck,’ was still open to receive, may fall under his criticism. He is chargeable to a great extent for its having appeared.