British yournals and Books. 15 



Editor, Th. W. Cowan, London, Eng. Price $1.50. 



FOREIGN BOOKS. 



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

 exceedingly interesting, and shows by its able historical 

 chapters, admirable scientific disquisitions and frequent 

 quotations and references to practical and scientific writers 

 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 Neighbor, 

 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, concise, 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-Keep- 

 ing," by the late John Hunter, London. This is also recent. 

 The « Bee-Keeper's Guide Book," by Tho. Wm. Cowen, 

 is a small, practical book of much merit. A still smaller 

 work, styled " Modern Bee-Keeping," is published under 

 the control of the British Bee-Keepers' Association. This 

 is recent, cheap, and like Cowan's guide-book, specially 

 prepared for beginners, Dzierzon's " Rational Bee-Keep- 

 ing " has been translated into English, and, as the work of 

 a master, will be read with interest by American bee- 

 keepers. The latest and by far the most complete and 

 valuable foreign work is " Bees and Bee-Keeping," by 

 Frank Cheshire. This is a compilation. Many of the 

 pages and illustrations are taken bodily from such writers 

 as Schiemenz, Girard, Wolff, etc., and, we are pained to 

 say, generally without any credit whatever. The author 

 gives, as original, many views which others have previously 

 advanced, and worse, his quotations — unmarked quotations 

 — show that he knew he was claiming what was right- 

 fully another's. The work is very complete and admir- 

 able, both in style and matter, and the only regret is that 

 the author did not show the same good taste in giving 

 credit that he did in making selections. The price of this 



