A Study in Scarlet — page 190: what you’re looking at

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A BOOK FULL OF “HUMAN” INTEREST. QUEER PEOPLE By WILLIAM HENRY BISHOP. Author of ‘“DETMOLD.”’ Not one story, but a number of charming storyettes, terse, snappy and absorbingly Iteresuing . 2... . J. sae There is a delightful pen sketch of a woman of stnall means who aspires to a con- nection with the smart set. Her attempts to disguise the true state of affairs from her out-of-town friends are laughable; but the fun becomes tinged with pathos when she borrows a furnished mansion for an evening, and a rich relative, invited to dine with her, uncloaks the pitiable fraud The promising boy and the fond patroness are the chief characters in another brilliant character study in ‘‘Queer People.” . . . 12mo., Cloth. Price, $1.00. STREET AND SMITH, New York and London EOmicnoo S) (ef @)