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language.” The author has such an intolerable flow of words, and his mode 
of expression is so long, instead of being terse and brief, that at least half 
of the present work is occupied with long-winded sentences, which convey 
very little significance. Then, while he evidently desires to have his sub- 
ject styled a Science — as it unquestionably should be — he utterly omits 
everything like a scientific method in his teaching. For instance, he plunges 
at once into the very midst of his subject, instead of leading his reader on, 
step by step. We must confess to an utter dislike of Professor Whitney 
as a teacher, for to us he seems alike to want both clearness of expression 
and scientific method of putting his facts together. One of the best chapters 
in the present work is that on local and class variation of language — in fact, 
dialects. In this he shows the mode in which dialects are formed, and he 
observes with perfect justice, that many of the so-called Americanisms and 
Irishisms are simply the older forms of the English tongue itself, which, 
while still extant in America and Ireland, have died out of the English soil. 
The other chapters are tout ensemble unsatisfactory, and with this expression 
of our views we close this notice. 
A MANUAL OF BEE-KEEPING. * 
M R. HUNTER has done a good work in giving this little book to the 
apiarian. He has told us in something over a couple of hundred pages 
everything we require to know as an amateur bee-lover. The author is the 
honorary secretary of the British Bee-keepers’ Association, and is therefore 
not only thoroughly familiar with the natural history of the Bee, and with 
the different varieties which have been introduced into this country, but he 
is also familiar with the various processes that have been adopted in the 
management of the hive. To be sure, as the author observes, his book is 
not to be compared with that of Langstroth ; but then the purchaser will 
remember that the price is four times as much as Mr. Hunter’s little work. 
There is nothing that relates to bees and bee-keeping that does not find a 
place in this small book. First we have ample information on the subjects 
of Hives, Supers, Ekes, and Nadirs, Feeders, Queen-cages, Bee-houses, the 
Honey-extractor, Drone-traps, Guide-combs, quieting bees, driving, natural 
and artificial swarming, Queen-breeding, Ligurian bees and the mode of Ligu- 
rianising an apiary, transferring bees and combs to an apiary, removing 
supers, robbing, feeding, pollen, ventilation, &c. Then there comes a series 
of chapters on stings, the method of removing bees, the pasturage for bees, 
the a diseases ” and enemies of these industrious little creatures, on combs, 
draining honey from them, on the uses of honey and the preparation of wax ; 
and the book ends with three chapters on propolis, profits, and a calendar 
which tells you what you are to do with your bees as every month goes by. 
The most interesting chapters in the book are the first, which treats of the 
natural history of the honey-bee, and which is of value, notwithstanding 
* 11 A Manual of Bee-keeping.” By John Hunter, Hon. Sec. British Bee- 
keepers’ Association. London : Hardwicke. 1875. 
