OUR SOCIAL BEES;
OR,
PICTURES OF TOWN & COUNTRY LIFE,
AND OTHER PAPERS.
BY
ANDREW WYNTER, M.D.
AUTHOR OF "CURIOSITIES OF CIVILIZATION, ETC
"Not in vain the distance beckons.
Forward, forward, let us range;
Let the great world spin for ever
Down the ringing groove of change."
TENNYSON
LONDON:
ROBERT HARDWICKE, 192, PICCADILLY.
1865
TO THE READER.
THE public favour which attended the issue of "Curiosities of Civilization" has induced me to collect another series of my papers, and to publish them in an uniform volume. Some of the articles have already appeared in two little volumes long since out of print. The major portion, however, have been published from time to time in the pages of Once a Week, and others in Fraser's Magazine, the London Review, the Times, and other channels. The article on "Human Hair" originally appeared in the Quarterly, and the one on "Brain Difficulties" in the Edinburgh Review.
COLEHERNE COURT, OLD BROMPTON
June 1st, 1861
THE HUNTERIAN MUSEUM AT THE COLLEGE OF SURGEONS
PALACE LIGHTS, CLUB CARDS AND BANK PENS
THE GREAT MILITARY-CLOTHING ESTABLISHMENT AT PIMLICO
THE NERVOUS SYSTEM OF THE METROPOLIS
[the final chapters, below, omitted, as having very little London connection - the full text is, however, available via Google Books, here]
A FORTNIGHT IN NORTH WALES
THE ARISTOCRATIC ROOKS
THE ENGLISHMAN ABROAD
A GOSSIP ABOUT THE LAKES
SENSATIONS OF A SUMMER NIGHT AND MORNING
PHYSICAL ANTIPATHIES
THE PHILOSOPHY OF BABYDOM
BRAIN DIFFICULTIES
HUMAN HAIR