NATURE AND CULTIVATION.
A Bee Melody. By Herbert Brown. (Melrose. 6s.) One subject, properly studied, involves all the rest of the universe, or so at least we had been told without seriously accepting that view. But the present volume is an instance which nearly fulfils the saying. The apparently restricted subject of the Bee encroaches on the domain of the religion, science and philosophy of the ancient and modern worlds. The reverend author is himself an intellectual bee of the most exemplary industry, and, what is more, with a taste for honey that is unerring. Compilation is an irksome task and weary reading, but in this case the apparently most divergent themes are arranged melodiously. Fabre and the Georgics one might expect to find cited, but a most unusual pleasure comes from wondering whether the next quotation will be from the Bible or from Buddha.
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