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can assign the laws of human thought — or the grammarian who 

 can discriminate the niceties of language — or the naturalist who 

 can classify the flowers, and the birds, and the shells, and the 

 minerals, and the insects which so teem and multiply in this 

 world of wonders ; each of these respective inquirers is apt to 

 become the worshipper of his own theme, and to look with 

 a sort of indifference, bordering on contempt, towards what he 

 imagines the far less interesting track of his fellow-labourers. 

 Now, each is right in the admiration he renders to the grace 

 and grandeur of that field which he has explored ; but all are 

 wrong in the distaste they feel, or, rather, in the disregard they 

 cast, on the other fields which they have never entered. We 

 should take the testimony of each to the worth of that which he 

 does know ; and then the unavoidable inference is, that that must 

 be indeed a replete and gorgeous universe in which we dwell, 

 and still more glorious the Eternal Mind from whose conception 

 it arose, and whose prolific fiat gave birth to it, in all its vastness 

 and variety." 



The Writer has only to add, that if any of his readers are 

 ever in any difficulty with their bees, and will send full par- 

 ticulars to the Editor of The Bazaar, 170, Strand, London, 

 the best and fullest advice the Writer can give will be freely 

 placed at their service. 



