A Study in Scarlet (Serial Edition Cover) — page 190: what you’re looking at

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A BOOK FULL OF “HUMAN” INTEREST. QUEER PEOPER By WILLIAM HENRY BISHQP. Author of ‘SDRTMOLD.”’ Not one story, but a number of charming storyettes, terse, snappy and absorbingly VERT ESUINS oy iy Sw ind ada antes There is a delightful pen sketch of a woman of small 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 Gomicboo S.C