THE BEEKEEPERS' REVIEW 457 



class article, an article you can duplicate exactly when you sell again and above 

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Beekeeping 



E. F. PHILLIPS 

 "A Discussion of the Life of the Honeybee and of the Production of Honey" * 



Review by Associate Editor Edwin G. Baldwin 



So reads the title and caption of the latest addition to the ranks of the 

 world's bee-books. Over two thousand years ago an inspired sage wrote, "of 

 making many books there is no end," and his prophecy is daily being fulfilled. 

 When a new book on apiculture appears in the already well represented field, 

 a decent respect for the opinions of the editorial and authorship world de- 

 mands, that there shall be set forth some valid reasons for its existence. 



In the case of the volume under consideration, it is apparent that two 

 features of it will amply justify its publication; first, much new and original 

 matter; second, unique lines of presentation of matter already known. 



To the new matter in the book subsequent allusion will be made at the 

 proper place. The originality of presentation is best seen by a perusal of the 

 book itself. The novelty of the treatise lies in the "effort to present a logical 

 discussion of the various phases of the complex subject of Beekeeping," to 

 quote from the author's own preface, italics ours. 



At first blush it might appear, that the author, by inuendo at least, gently 

 condemned all previous apicultural works as being illogical. A careful study 

 of the book, however, is a perfect corrective of any erroneous impression that 

 one might have gained from the first sentence in the preface. 



Very early in the book, however, and all through its pages we can see 

 the workings of an orderly mind, the effort of a scientific brain to reduce the 

 complex and often confusing ideas of data and operations and theories of bee- 

 keeping to the hard and fast principles of technical analysis — in short, to 

 make a scientific treatise of the entire subject. It is safe to affirm, at the 

 outset, that the author has succeeded in his effort. From preface to appendix 

 it is foundations, underlying principles, that are held constantly and consis- 

 tently before the readers. And so we may safely affirm, without termine any 

 other presentations illogical, that no other treatise approaches the subject at 

 just the angle presented in this book. 



We append herewith a resume of the contents, by chapters. 



I. Beekeeping as an Occupation. VIII. Reproductive Processes and 



II. Apparatus. Parthenogenesis. 



III. The Colony and its Organization. IX. Races of Bees. 



IV. The Cycle of the Year. X. Regional Differences within the 



V. The Life of the Individual in Re- United States. 



lation to the Colony XI. The First Steps in Beekeeping. 



VI. The Life Processes of the Indi- XII. Apiary Site. 



vidual. XIII. Manipulation of Bees. 



VII. The Nervous System and the XIV. Spring Management. 

 Senses. XV. Swarm Control and Increase. 



(*The Rural Science Series. The MacMillan Co, New York, 1915. Price, 

 cloth $2.00.) 



(To be continued) 



