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1897
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THE LOVE AFFAIRS OF AN OLD MAID. 16mo, Cloth, Ornamental, Uncut Edgesand Gilt Top, $1 25.
… The love affairs of an old maid are not her own, but otherpeople's, and in this volume we have the love trials and joys of avariety of persons described and analyzed…. The peculiarity of thisbook is that each type is perfectly distinct, clear, andinteresting…. Altogether the book is by far the best ofthose recently written on the tender passion.—CincinnatiCommercial-Gazette.
THE UNDER SIDE OF THINGS. A Novel. 16mo, Cloth, Ornamental, Uncut
Edges and Gilt Top, $1 25.
A tenderly beautiful story…. This book is Miss Bell's best effort,and most in the line of what we hope to see her proceed in, dainty andkeen and bright, and always full of the fine warmth and tenderness ofsplendid womanhood.—Interior, Chicago.
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Dedicated
"Since we deserved the name of friends,
And thine effect so lives in me,
A part of mine may live in thee,
And move thee on to noble ends."
Every woman has had, at some time in her life, an experience with manin the raw. In reality, one cannot set down with any degree ofaccuracy the age when his rawness attacks him, or the time when he hasgot the last remnant of it out of his system. But a close study of thecomplaint, and the necessity for pigeon-holing everything andeverybody, lead one to declare that somewhere in the vicinity of theage of thirty-five man emerges from his rawness and becomes a part oftrained humanity—a humanity composed of men and women trained in theart of living together.
I am impressed with Professor Horton's remarks on this subject: "Ithas sometimes struck me as very singular," he says, "that whilenothing is so common and nothing is so difficult as living with otherpeople, we are seldom instructed in our youth how to do it well. Ourknowledge of the subject is acquired by experience, chiefly byfailures. And by the time that we have tolerably mastered the delicateart, we are on the point of being called to the isolation of thegrave—or shall I say to the vast company of the Majority?
"But an art of so much practical moment deserves a little moreconsideration. It should not be taught by chance, or in fragments, butduly deployed, expounded, and enforced. It is of far more pr