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of the science and art of bee-culture. Like all of the other 

 works it has its peculiar excellences, and may well find a 

 place in the library of every progressive apiarist. 



Biased Bees. — This fascinating romance is full of practical 

 information, and contagious enthusiasm. 



Bee Keeper's Handy Boole. — This work is by Henry Alley, 

 Weuham, INIassachusetts, the veteran queen breeder of 

 America. It gives the principles of breeding, and details all 

 the manipulations necessary to secure the best success in a 

 plain and succinct style. The value of the book is enhanced 

 by an able article from Mr. George House on marketing honey, 

 and one from Silas M. Locke, of Salem, Ma.ssachusetts, on 

 the races of the honey bee. It will prove a valuable acquisi- 

 tion to every queen breeders' library. 



FOREIGN PUBLICATIONS. 



The British Bee Journal, as the exponent of apiarian methods 

 and practices, is interesting and valuable to American bee- 

 keepers. It shows that in many things, as in the method of 

 organizing and conducting conventions, so as to make them 

 highly conducive to apicultural progress, we have much to 

 learn from our brothers in Britain. 



FOEEIGN BOOKS. 



Bevau, revised, though but little changed, by Munn, is 

 exceedingly interesting, and shows by its able historical chap- 

 ters, admirable scientific disquisitions, and frequent quotations 

 and references to practical and scientific writer- on bees and 

 bee-keeping, both ancient and modern, that the writers were 

 men of extensive reading and great scientific ability. The 

 book is of no practical value to us, but by the student it will 

 be read with great interest. " The Apiary, or Bees, Bee-Hives, 

 and Bee Culture," by Alfred Neighbour, London, is a fresh, 

 sprightly little work, and as the third edition has just appeared, 

 is, of course, up with the times. The book is in nice dress, con- 

 cise, and very readable, and I am glad to commend it A less 

 interesting work, though by no means without merit, is the 

 ' ' Manual of Bee-Keeping," by the late John Hunter, London. 

 This is also recent. The ' ' Bee-Keeper's Guide Book, " by Tho. 

 Wm. Cowen, is a small book of considerable merit. A still 

 smaller work, styled '•Modern Bee-Keeping," is published 



