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A painfully shy young man narrates a series of comic social misadventures that arise from his extreme diffidence. Through episodes at picnics, fairs, tea-parties, public speaking, civic duties, theatrical entertainments, and dances he repeatedly encounters humiliations, narrow escapes, accidental heroics, romantic awkwardness, and unintended generosity. The first-person account treats bashfulness as both comic flaw and controlling force, linking small daily blunders with broader themes of pride, embarrassment, and the difficulty of self-presentation in social life, while keeping an anecdotal, episodic structure.

THE HOUSE

BY THE RIVER

BY

FLORENCE WARDEN.

 

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OR,

THE CONFESSIONS OF IRENE.

BY

AURELIA I. SIDNER.

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ADVENTURE AND DETECTIVE STORY!

 

SPRIGGS, THE

CRACKSMAN.

By HEADON HILL

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Mother at the Races.

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Mother Goes Yachting.

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Mother and the Theatrical Angel.

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By PERCY J. BREBNER,

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LADY VERNER'S FLIGHT                                                     The "Duchess"

THE TESTING OF OLIVE VAUGHAN                                   P. T. Brebner

THE CONFESSIONS OF A PRINCESS                                   —— ——

SELF-RAISED                                                  Mrs. E. D. E. N. Southworth

ISHMAEL                                                         Mrs. E. D. E. N. Southworth

ONLY A GIRL'S LOVE                                                        Charles Garvice

SAPPHO                                                                               Alphonse Daudet

THE HUMOROUS MR. BOWSER                                                      M. Quad

A BAD BOY'S DIARY                                                                     By Himself

A WOUNDED HEARTCharles Garvice
EAST LYNNEMrs. Henry Wood
THE PEER AND THE WOMANE. Phillips Oppenheim
ALONE ON A WIDE, WIDE SEAW. Clark Russell
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THE BIG NOISE! THE LOUD SCREAM! THE TALL HOLLER!

You Will Laugh, You Will Yell,

You Will Scream at

THE BLUNDERS OF

A BASHFUL MAN

The World's Champion

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THE BLUNDERS OF A BASHFUL MAN.

In this screamingly funny volume the reader follows, with rapt attention and hilarious delight, the mishaps, mortifications, confusions, and agonizing mental and physical distresses of a self-conscious, hypersensitive, appallingly bashful young man, in a succession of astounding accidents, and ludicrous predicaments, that convulse the reader with cyclonic laughter, causing him to hold both sides for fear of exploding from an excess of uproarious merriment.

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By "THE DUCHESS."

Author of "Molly Bawn," "The Honorable Mrs. Vereker," Etc.

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Lady Verner's Flight is no exception to her reputed ability; in fact, in it she quite surpasses her own standard, and the reader follows with breathless interest the vicissitudes and trials that mark the course of this pure story of English life in which there are no less than three love affairs going on at the same time.

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THE SHADOW OF A CROSS.

BY

MRS. DORA NELSON

AND

F. C. HENDERSCHOTT.

"The sweetest American story ever written," wrote one critic in reviewing the story, which first appeared as a serial in a magazine of large circulation. A strong inquiry for the novel in book form developed, and we have just issued the book to meet this demand.

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P.O. Box 767,          57 ROSE STREET, NEW YORK.


The World's Finger

is the title of the most absorbing detective narrative ever written.

One would not surmise from the title that such was the fact; but the closing chapter of the book gives the clue to its meaning: "I swore to my father on his death-bed that The World's Finger should never point to a Davanant as amongst the list of known convicts, and that oath I will keep."

T. W. Hanshew is the author, and a writer of more exciting and sensational detective stories cannot be found at the present day.

One reader writes: "I thought I would read a chapter or two of The World's Finger, to see what it was all about. I soon found out, and it was two o'clock in the morning before I lay it down, having read it to the end at one sitting. It certainly is a corker."

Bound in paper covers; price, 25 cents. Sent by mail to any address upon receipt of price. Address all orders to

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ONLY A

GIRL'S LOVE

BY

CHARLES GARVICE.

IT

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