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Our Social Bees.

Pictures of Town and Country, and other Papers.
ANDREW WYNTER, M.D.

CONTENTS.

Observer.

"The papers are treated in such a manner as to form not merely an interesting, but an instructive contribution to the stock of popular literature, and the volume is therefore a welcome contribution to our current literature."

Bell's Weekly Messenger.

"The Curiosities of Civilization' contained so many amusing and important details, that a second selection will be accepted at once with the utmost gratification by the many readers who have already been fascinated by Dr. Wynter's agreeable style, and the characteristic details of men and manners by which he has rendered his name popular. Sometimes the first dish is more palatable than the second, the newest entremet serving to take off the pleasant taste of its predecessor. In this instance it is not so, since Dr. Wynter has kept back the better portion for a second course."

Literary Gazette:

"Crowded with facts and sparkling with fancy; written in a cheerful and philosophic spirit. The writer is never unapproachable in his ideal, but shrewd, sensible, and thoughtful in his mode of narration and in his way of marshalling facts."

Era.

"On the whole, we prefer this volume as a book of amusement, and even instruction, to the Curiosities of Civilization,' which has enjoyed a good name and sale. Dr. Wynter is an accomplished and well-informed man; he writes well, has much to tell, and even his lightest sketches convey substantial thoughts or facts in their delicate outlines. This volume contains more than forty papers gleaned from first-rate periodicals. It would have been a literary loss had they not been so gathered and preserved. Sometimes there is a quaintness in some of the essays which recall the immortal Charles Lamb."

Standard.

"These papers are characterized by the same breadth of view, the same felicity of language, the same acuteness of thought, which distinguished the 'Curiosities of Civilization.' So long as Dr. Wynter continues to write papers similar to those in the volume before us, and in Curiosities of Civilization,' so long will the republication of those papers be welcomed by the public."

Universal News,

"To a more pleasant dish of 'Miscellanea' it has never yet been our good fortune to sit down. There is a lively and sprightly power of description which causes the author never to flag."

City Press.

"The volume comprises pictures, admirably drawn, of urban and rural li ́e; and, while the general and happy manner in which the sketches are 'hit off' cannot fail to attract and amuse the cursory reader, the amount of solid information the volume contains will well repay the more thoughtful for the time spent in its perusal."

Oriental Budget.

"Written in the general essay style made familiar by Sir Francis Head, no writer has surpassed Dr. Wynter in the clearness and simplicity, no less than the graphic! power with which he has treated the driest and most matter-of-fact subjects. The amount of information condensed into some of the articles, and converted into agreeable reading is really astonishing. Dr. Wynter has a well-stored mind, and communicates his knowledge and the results of his reading and observation in a mode that is easy, clever, and fascinating. He has thought deeply, has investigated acutely, and has garnered a rich storehouse of facts and good things, and possesses the happy talent of making his reader a delighted sharer in the results of his labours."

Bristol Mirror.

As a

"Like a clever cook serving up a heavy dinner, Dr. Wynter garnishes his heavy dishes with so many nice light things, that they always appear fresh and attractive. If he gives us a joint of literary beef, he never forgets the literary horseradish. book companion which never ceases to amuse, whilst it embodies the important element of instruction upon a variety of matters connected with cur social system, we heartily commend 'Our Social Bees' to all classes of readers."

Fourth Edition, crown 8vo. price 68.

Curiosities of Civilization."

Being Essays from the Quarterly and Edinburgh Reviews. By
DR. ANDREW WYNTER.

The London Commissariat.
Food and its Adulterations.
Advertisements.

The Zoological Gardens.
Rats.

Woolwich Arsenal.
Shipwrecks.

CONTENTS.

Lodging, Food, and Dress of
Soldiers.

The Electric Telegraph.
Fires and Fire Insurance.
The Police and the Thieves.
Mortality in Trades and Profes-
sions.
Lunatic Asylums.

The Times

Of October 25, in a very favourable and elaborate review, of four columns, says:"We shall look in vain, for example, two centuries back, for anything like an equivalent to the volume before us. Some of the articles are mainly derived from observations made in the course of professional studies; others are at least cognate to the subjects which occupy a physician's hourly thoughts; all are more or less instructive as to certain phases of our civilization, and the strange elements it holds in suspension. Some of the incidents are of unparalleled magnitude, quite as striking as anything contained in the wonder-books of our ancestors."

Morning Post.

"Dr. Wynter's papers show that he has made deep researches, and that he. brings to bear upon them the acumen of a well-stored mind-a perfect kaleidoscopic array of subjects."

Daily News.

"Dr. Wynter has both industry and skill. He investigates all branches of his subjects, and tells us the result easily and unaffectedly. In short, a better book of miscellaneous reading has not come under our notice for a long while."

Morning Advertiser.

"Replete with information necessary to the well-being of almost every class of society."

Globe.

"Those who are unacquainted with Dr. Wynter's most agreeable and instructive notices, can hardly exaggerate the gratification in store for them. It is a book to take into a dungeon, and one to make a sunshine in that shady place."

Saturday Review.

"One of the most amusing and best-executed works of its kind that ever came under our notice. Every subject that Dr. Wynter handles, even if it refers to scientific matters, is ground down so very fine, that it is hardly competent to human stupidity to fail to understand it."

Spectator.

"These articles form a delightful inventory of facts, in which every reader has a direct personal interest, for they are such as may or do affect him and his at every moment of their lives, and collectively they form a very curious insight into the anatomy of some parts of our civilization past and present. Seldom have the fruits of

so much labour been converted into more easy and pleasant reading."

Illustrated News.

"It would have been a pity if so much that is useful and entertaining had been entombed in the pages of a review. The subject-matter was worthy of being put into a book, and we are glad that it is done."

Press.

"The Essays are thirteen in number, and form a very delightful, instructive work. It contains many good pictures of London life, and a knowledge of this gigantic metropolis scarcely surpassed by any modern writer."

Economist.

We

"The style is that of a sensible, shrewd, kindly man of the world, who knows how to present much useful information in a telling and interesting form. recommend our readers to make acquaintance with this entertaining and instructive volume."

Literary Gazette.

"We have never met with any contributions to Magazines, however high their class, more worthy of holding a place in our libraries, than those furnished by the industrious research and graphic pen of Dr. Wynter. We look on their reproduction, therefore, as a boon to the reading public."

The London Review.

"Those who have seen them before, will gladly renew an acquaintance with them; whilst those who have not had that advantage, will be astonished at the vast collection of strange facts and shrewd observations that are packed closely together within the pages of a single volume."

Era.

"Dr. Wynter has laid before us, in this charming work, a series of papers, the subjects of which claim almost historical importance. We heartily express our high approbation of this volume. It has a permanent interest."

Mining Review.

"Among the various Essays by eminent and brilliant writers, none surpass Dr. Wynter in instructiveness, amusing information, and easy cleverness of style. If any one wants to know how our great Babylon is supplied, with unerring certainty and sound calculation, with food and drink, day after day and year after year; how that food is systematically and universally doctored and adulterated; how our thieves operate, flourish, come to grief, and are affected by the police who are employed to detect or capture them; how men are slowly murdered by unhealthy trades, and how the professions kill or keep alive their members; how fires influence fire insurance, and fire insurance influences fires; how and what sort of people dwell in lunatic asylums; how many romantic and least-imagined things can be learnt by studying the shipwrecks which have occurred during the last few years; how-but we will stop, and simply add, that whoever wants a fireside book this winter, rich in useful facts, and written in a manner clear, fascinating, and original, had better purchase Dr. Wynter's Curiosities of Civilization."

City Press.

"Which of the papers is best it is difficult to decide, as each is replete with information for general readers. For deep reading and close observation, it is a long time since we met with a book of equal value-a book which contains not only curious, but solid and sterling information and sound philosophy."

Dublin Evening Mail.

"A most attractive book, which we heartily recommend to our readers."