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historic knowledge of apiculture. With what pleasure we 

 remember the elegant, really classic, diction of the editorials, 

 the dignified bearing, and freedom from asperities which 

 marked the old American Bee Journal as it made ii^ monthly 

 visits fresh from the editorial supervision of Mr. Samuel 

 Wagner. Some one has said that there is something in the 

 very atmosphere of a scholarly gentleman, that impresses all 

 who approach him. I have often thought, as memory reverted 

 to the old American Bee Journal, or as I have re-read the 

 numbers which bear the impress of Mr. Wagner's superior 

 learning, that, though the man is gone, the stamp of his noble 

 character and classical culture is still on these pages, aiding, 

 instructing, elevating, all who are so fortunate as to possess 

 the early volumes of this periodical. I am also happy to 

 state that the American Bee Journal is again in good hands, 

 and that its old prestige is fully restored. Mr. Newman is 

 an experienced editor, a man of excellent judgment and ad- 

 mirable balance, a man who demonstrates his dislike of crim- 

 inations and recriminations by avoiding them ; who has no 

 special inventions or pet theories to push, and is thus almost 

 sure to be disinterested and unbiased in the advice he offers ; 

 who lends his aid and favor to our Conventions, which do so 

 much to spread apiarian knowledge. And when I add, that 

 he brings to his editorial aid the most able, experienced and 

 educated apiarists of the world, I surely have spoken high 

 hut Just praise, of the American Bee Journal, whose enviable 

 reputation extends even to distant lands. It is edited by 

 Thomas G. Newman, at Chicago. 



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This periodical makes up for its brief history of only five 

 years, by the vigor and energy which has characterized it from 

 the first. Its editor is an active apiarist, who is constantly 

 experimenting ; a terse, able writer, and brimming-full of good 

 nature and enthusiasm. I am free to say, that in practical 

 apiculture I am more indebted to Mr. Root than to any other 

 one person, except Rev. L. L. Langstroth. I also think that, 

 with few exceptions, he has done more for the recent advance- 

 ment of practical apiculture than any other person in our 

 country. Yet I have often regretted that Mr. Root is so 



