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The Lore of the Honey-Bee. By Tickner Edwardes. With 24 Illustrations. 
X 5 ’n. Pp. 282. Methuen. Price 6s. 
It would appear that what Mr. Edwardes does not know about bees can 
hardly be worth knowing. His turn of mind and the purpose of his book may 
Comb Built Upward. From “The Lore of the Honey-Bee.” 
(By kind permission of Messrs. Methuen.) 
be more practical than those of M. Maeterlinck, though it is difficult not to 
“ drop into poetry ” when writing of “ the commonwealth of the hive.” History 
does not record it, but perhaps Virgil started out to write a sober prose manual 
