. British bee journal & bee-keepers adviser. Bees. 154 THE BRITISH BEE JOURNAL. [April 20, 1899. HERBERT J. SANDS. (" ;) (Concluded from page 138.) The hope we ventured to express on page 118 with reference to a portrait of " Lords- wood '' has happily been fulfilled by the arrival from California of a print of the photo taken at Rednal Cottage in June last by Mr. Cowan, whom we without delay apprised of Mr. Sands' death. We also reminded him of the " snap-shot" referred to, at the same time informing hrm that there was no portrait of " Lordswood &qu
. British bee journal & bee-keepers adviser. Bees. 154 THE BRITISH BEE JOURNAL. [April 20, 1899. HERBERT J. SANDS. (" ;) (Concluded from page 138.) The hope we ventured to express on page 118 with reference to a portrait of " Lords- wood '' has happily been fulfilled by the arrival from California of a print of the photo taken at Rednal Cottage in June last by Mr. Cowan, whom we without delay apprised of Mr. Sands' death. We also reminded him of the " snap-shot" referred to, at the same time informing hrm that there was no portrait of " Lordswood " in existence, and, of course, no possibility now of procuring one unless his photo was available. Needless to say a print was promptly prepared and despatched, the above being a reproduction of it. Though never intended to serve as a portrait, the little photo conveys a very good idea of our late friend as expressive of the quiet, unassum- ing manner which was his chief character- istic in life. Nor do we doubt that the pleasure felt in having a permanent record of one we held in affec- tionate regard will be shared by Bee Journal reader^, to whom the literary con- tributions of "Lordswood" have, we know, afforded a considerable amount of genuine pleasure. Having some time ago had occasion to write Mr. Sands about travelling south, we took the opportunity of saying how pleased we should be to see him in town when next he came thia way. In reply he wrote :— " Yes, I do sometimes have a run into the great Metropolis, when staying with my sister at Thame, in Oxfordshire. Kew Gardens is the ' loadstone' that impels me towards London. The picture galleries, museums, &c., create in me a desire to escape into a small room to a cup of tea, the tea to be of my own buying and my own brewing. Agricultural and flower shows also have much the same effect, and every time I do go—which is very often—after the crushing and packing into trains (generally with fat wo
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