CHAPTER VIII. 

 LITERARY WORK (concluded']. 



" Bees and their Management'" " Strange Dwellings " " The Boys' Own 

 Natural History " " Common British Insects " " Bible Animals " divided 

 Reprints Magazine Articles Connection with The Boy's Own Paper 

 The Sunday Magazine " Writings for the Young " " Mistram " 

 Summary of Literary Labours " Popularising " Natural History The 

 "Field" Naturalist Importance of Classification Personal Observation 

 Opening out a New Field. 



BESIDES those which I have already mentioned in the 

 course of preceding chapters, several books have from 

 time to time appeared bearing my father's name. Of 

 these, perhaps, the only one that can claim to take rank 

 as a separate work is a small handbook on " Bees and 

 their Management," edited by him in quite the early part 

 of his career, and published by Messrs. George Eoutledge 

 and Co., as one of their series of popular shilling hand- 

 books for the country. He was not very well satisfied 

 with this himself, I fancy, and afterwards wished that 

 it had not borne his name. I do not remember ever to 

 have seen a copy, and have no doubt that it has long 

 since fallen out of circulation. 



The remainder of these books consist partly of smaller 

 volumes cut down from his larger works, partly of 

 collections of articles which had been previously pub- 

 lished in the periodical press. The first of the former 

 class to appear, I believe, was " Strange Dwellings," 



