THE BRE-KRErERS, REVIEW. 8i 



I)oo-k('(>i><M-s tli.it slionld rc.-icli oul :iii(i wriliiiu :m (Milifrly new hook with ;i 



csl.-ihlisli hi-Miirhrs in soinclhhi.i; Ihc lillc lh;il sounds very iiiuch liUt' llio 



Siiinc inMiiiicr :is oui- ri;il(>rii:il or,i;:in- old one. hiil i( ihomhs forty times iis 



iz.Mlions liiivo ln'cn I'oiiudcd: lull tlic imicli. ;is it is "i-^irty Vo:ii-s Anions 



prcsiMil indic-itions iirc tliat tlio prol)- tiio I'.ccs." In tliis tlio iiutiioi- .i;-ot>s 



Icni will he solved in tlio reverse or- hrielly, hut concisely, ov(>r liis forty 



(lor s(unelliiiij;- after th(> niiiiuicr in vcns <(f hee-kec^pin;;-, for h(> lias I'eal- 



whicii OUI- Ki"<':it inchistrial orj-aniza- ly kei'l '"'es for forty years. Not 



tions liave Iteen formed. only tliis, Imt lie ;^iv('S us a (h'li.uiit- 



I''or instance, tliere c:im(> lii'sf the fully wrilteu hio.m'apliical sketcli of 



individual wa.uon maker, llieu the liis hoyhood in rennsylvania, his 



stock company that huilt a factory. lieroic stru.^.uies in seeurin;,' an e<l>iea- 



and linally a .t;rand comhination of tion. in which he lioarch-d himself, 



factories, familiarly known as a cullin.u liis weekly e.xpcuso for board 



•trust." I'Mrst came llie individual down to only tliirty-tlvo conts ii wook, 



hee-keeiier, and now, her(> and tli(>re, which so affected his health that lie 



in California. ColoraiN) and Oiilai'io, has never full.v I'ecovered from it. 1 



.-'I'e he.Liinnin.u to lie formed commer- found this account of his early lif<' so 



cial orJ,^aIliza(i()us of hee-kiMMtors. The interestiuj;- that I read it aloud to the 



lime may come wIkmi these local oi'- whole family. Most vividly did it re- 



jiaui/.atious will have liecoiue so <'all my own hoyhood's days in which 



numerous tiiat concerled action will I roamed the forest as free as the 



he needed, .and then the central office wild thiiiys in whose lives I hecaiue 



Avill come of itself, so to sjieak. so inter(>sted. 



Let us not lie disaiipointed hecause Another very interest in, n' feature of 



commercial oruaui/.atiou is cominji' in the hook is the lar^o nunihor of kodak 



a different form from that in -which iiidures with which its iia^os are om- 



we had planned. hellislied. 'I'lie doctor has surely 



learned how to "■push the Itutton" or 

 have some one do it for him, with 



1.-ORTY YEARS .VMONG THE HEK.S. ,.,>usid(>rahlo profu-ieucy. 



.V few years a.uo I ir. ('. C. INfiller Tho hook contains 327 paffos, is 



wrote a i-eadjihle and iustiaictive hook nicely liound in cloth and K<>ld, and 



called "A Yeai- Anions the T.ees." In inihiished, at -1^1.110, hy Goo. W. York 



this hook he jvinc advice foi- cop.duct- A: Co.. Chica.uo, III. 



injr the affairs of the ajiiary from the 1 have not yet said ono word about 



bejiinnin.ii- to the end of the year, what is iirobahly the most imiiortant 



lienc(> the name. The dem.-ind was ]iart of the vvurk. that is, tho main 



such that the hook was soon out of body that pivcs the solid instructions 



pi-int, and I have often wondei'ed wliy re,Liar<linL;- actual work in the apiar.v. 



the jidod doctor did not .i^et out a new There are two reasons foi" this: One 



edition. 1 have ;ilvvays attributed is the lack of room in this issue to do 



this to a lack of time on the doctor's the sub Cct .justice, and the otlicM' is 



part, as he once told me that. y(>ai-s that I have not i-ead it. I have done 



a^'o, he had lool<ed forward to the this, howevci-, T have diiiiied into it 



time when he mi.Liht li;ive a litt](> leis- Imtc ami Ihei-e, Just enough so that 



VV". but, later, he had ,i;iven up all I feel warranted in saying that it is 



such hopes. It seems, howevei-, that the mastei'-piecO of the author's for- 



Le has been using his time of late in ly years anionj;- the bees. I shall read 



