“It is a magnificent picture of the most truly American figure of our time.”
+ Ind 102:373 Je 12 ’20 200w + Outlook 125:615 Ag 4 ’20 280w R of Rs 62:111 Jl ’20 120w The Times [London] Lit Sup p685 O 21 ’20 70w
KELLOGG, VERNON LYMAN. Nuova; or, The new bee; with songs by Charlotte Kellogg. il *$2.25 (9c) Houghton
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A note to this “story for children of five to fifty” says: “Most of this that I have written about bees is true: what is not, does not pretend to be. Some of the true part sounds almost like a description of what human life might in some respects be, if certain social movements of today were followed out to their logical extreme. I suppose that in this likeness lies the moral of the book.” The part of the story that isn’t true and doesn’t pretend to be has to do with the revolt of Nuova against bee traditions. Nuova is a new bee, she grows tired of working and begins to ask the meaning of things in bee society. She takes an interest in the drones and even falls in love with one of them. She meets the fate of all nonconformists and is about to be driven from the hive to her death when a fortunate turn of chance spares her and brings a happy ending.
+ Ind 104:249 N 13 ’20 30w
“Children will not get the satire, but they will find much useful information as well as much fancy in the text.”
+ Lit D p96 D 4 ’20 60w
“There are no danger signs to warn the child reader when he is following fancy away from the true path. Nor will its failure as a child’s book insure its success with the grown-ups.” M. H. B. Mussey