The Honey-Makers

Half natural history, half literature: how the honey-bee actually works — tongue, wings, sting, swarm — and then three thousand years of what people have believed about her, from the Vedas to mead.

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Bee-Culture at Present: Theatre

Kálidása's Hero and Nymph is from Wilson's Theatre of the Hindus.

The Toy Cart is also from the Theatre of the Hindus. Nágánanda, A Buddhist Drama, is from the Theatre of the Hindus.

The quotations from the Vedas, the Sutras, Puranas, etc., are from the Sacred Books of the East, edited by Max Müller. Chapter I. - See "The Chinese Sugar" - Jas. F. C. Hyde. Essay on Sugar - Niccol. Manual of Entomology - Dr. Hermann Burmeister. Text-Book of Entomology - Packard. Manual for the Study of Insects - Comstock. "Honey before, a lance behind " gische Forschungen The Feminin Monarchi - Chas. Butler. 1634 - PAGE - Menzel: Mytholo- 17 40 Charles Butler. The Feminin Monarchi, or Histori of Bees, 1634. The first edition appeared in 1609. The book was printed from a peculiar form of type devised to illustrate a method of phonetic spelling 40 Ants, Bees, and Wasps - Sir John Lubbock 42 "And he shall sing" - Theocritus - Lang's trans. 43 Huber: Observations on Nat. Hist. of Bees Antennæ as sense organs - see Cheshire: Bees and Bee-keeping 66 Appendix - Ibid.

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