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Our Social Bees. 



Pictures of Town and Country, and other Papers. By 

 Andrew Wynter, M.D. 



Contents : — The Post-office. — London Smoke. — Mock Auctions. — 

 Hyde Park. — The Suction Post. — St. George and the Dragon. — The 

 India-rubber Artist. — Our Peck of Dirt. — The Artificial Man. — 

 Britannia's Smelling-bottle. — The Hunterian Museum at the College of 

 Surgeons. — A Chapter on Shop Windows. — Commercial Grief. — 

 Orchards in Cheapside. — The Wedding Bonnet. — Aerated Bread.— The 

 German Fair. — Club Chambers for the Married. — Needle-making. — 

 Preserved Meats. — London Stout. — Palace Lights, Club Cards, and 

 Bank Pens. — The Great Military Clothing Establishment at Pimlico. 

 — Thoughts about London Beggars. — Wenham Lake Ice. — Candle 

 Making. — Woman's Work. — The Turkish Bath. — The Nervous System 

 of the Metropolis. — Who is Mr. Eeuter? — Our Modern Mercury. — 

 The Sewing Machine. — The Times' Advertising Sheet. — Old Things by 

 New Names. — A Suburban Fair. — A Fortnight in North Wales. — The 

 Aristocratic Rooks. — The Englishman Abroad. — A Gossip about the 

 Lakes. — Sensations of a Summer Night and Morning. — Physical 

 Antipathies. — The Philosophy of Babydom. — Brain Difficulties. — 

 Human Hair. 



" The papers are treated in such a manner as to form not merely an interesting, 

 but an instructive contribution to the stock of popular literature, and the volume is 

 therefore a welcome contribution to our current literature."— Observer. 



" The .' Curiosities of Civilization' contained so many amusing: and important 

 details, that a second selection will be accepted at once with the utmost gratification 

 by the many readers who have already been fascinated oy Dr. Wynter's agreeable 

 style, and the characteristic details of men and manners by which he has rendered his 

 name popular. Sometimes the first dish is more palatable than the second, — the 

 newest entremet serving to take off the pleasant taste of its predecessor. In this 

 instance it is not so, since Dr. Wynter has kept back the better portion for a second 

 course." — Bell's Weekly Messenger. 



" Crowded with facts and sparkling with fancy ; written in a cheerful and philo- 

 sophic spirit. The writer is never unapproachable in his ideal, but shrewd, sensible, 

 and thoughtful in his mode of narration and in his way of marshalling facts." — 

 Literary Gazette. 



"On the whole, we prefer this volume as a book of amusement, and even in- 

 struction, to the ' Curiosities of Civilization,' which has enjoyed a good name and 

 sale. Dr. Wynter is an accomplished and well-informed man ; he writes well, has 

 much to tell, and even his lightest sketches convey substantial thoughts or facts in 

 their delicate outlines. This volume contains more than forty papers gleaned from 

 first-rate periodicals. It would have been a literary loss had they not been so gathered 

 and preserved. Sometimes there is a quaintness in some of the essays whidh recalls 

 the immortal Charles Lamb." — Era. 



" These papers are characterized by the same breadth of view, the same felicity 

 of language, the same acuteness of thought, which distinguished the ' Curiosities of 

 Civilization.' So long as Dr. Wynter continues to write papers similar to those in the 

 volume before us, and in ' Curiosities of Civilization,' so long will the republication of 

 those papers be welcomed by the public." — Standard. 



