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' ' Wilderness Honey, " by F. L. Pollock. 



Reviewed by Morley Pettit. 



Few apiarists, and scarcely any one out- 

 side the profession, would believe that so 

 many really thrilling adventures could be 

 experienced in beekeeping as Frank Lillie 

 I'olloek has crowded into one short summer 

 of the heroes of this, his latest novel. They 

 are all true to life, and, with variations, 

 might happen to any young adventurer in 

 this fascinating pursuit under similar con- 

 ilitioiis. 



Left orphans and in poor cimcumstances 

 a girl and her two young brothers purchased 

 an apiary in the wilds of Haliburton, Ont., 

 wheie they spent the summer in a log 

 shanty. Tlieir bees robbed and fought and 

 stung, and gathered honey. In turn, they 

 were robbed by a halfbreed squatter, and 

 the young beekeepers ' method of finding the 

 stolen goods is one of the best features of 

 the story. They placed three hives of bees 

 near the squatter 's shack during a time 

 when no honey could be gathered from 

 flowers, and the bees very soon discovered 

 the stolen honey. 



Wisely the author, who, by the way, is an 

 experienced beekeeper, has not overdrawn 

 the agreeable and profitable features of bee- 

 keeping, for the usual honey-flow which was 

 expected from wild raspberry and basswood 

 proved almost a failure, and his description 

 of the mipleasant experiences of extracting 

 with sticky honey and crawling bees is most 

 realistic. A very fine point which only a 

 beekeeper would appreciate occurs where 

 the freshly extracted supers are left out of 

 doors by the young beekeepers who were too 

 tired to look after them. The beekeeping 

 reader holds his breath over the excitement 

 this would cause in an apiary until he learns 

 that a heavy flow of honey from willow herb 

 had begun early the next morning. 



The story, which ran first as a serial in the 

 Youth 's Companion, and now published by 

 the Century Co., of New York, was written 

 especially for boys and girls, but will be 

 found intensely interesting by any one who 

 has kept bees, as well as both thrilling and 

 instructive by those who have not had that 

 experience. 



The book is unique, and might be called 

 epoch-making in the sense that it is, per- 

 haps, the first complete novel based on ad- 

 ventures connected with beekeeping; and 

 while the author has taken certain liberties 

 with the behavior of the bees which he con- 

 sidered necessary for the development of his 

 plot, it is much more nearly true to bee-na- 

 ture than most books on bees which have been 

 published for popular reading outside the 

 recognized practical works on bee-manage- 

 ment 



