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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. 



Blessed Bees. — This fascinating romance is full of practical 

 information, and contagious enthusiasm. 



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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. 



Bevan, 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 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 Oulture," 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 thelate 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 

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

 This is*ne of the latest books, and would be valued by every 

 bee-keeper. The work that will find the largest sale with us of 

 any of the foreign books, is Dzierzon's ' ' Eational Bee-Keeping," 

 which has just been translated into English. As presenting to 

 American readers the practices and methods of German bee- 

 keepers, and as the work of one of the great masters, the 

 Langstroth of Germany, it cto but find a warm welcome on 

 this side the Atlantic. 



