Part 11

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“A rare book, exquisite in spirit and conception, full of delicate fancy, of tenderness, of delightful humor and spontaneity. The story is too dainty, too delicate for analysis.... It is a book to be enjoyed, and it is so suitably clad that its charm is enhanced.”—_Detroit Free Press._

“With exquisite skill, quite her own, the author individualizes in this gracefully told story, the heart’s devotion as the most exalted and exalting emotion. Miss Reed has the rare genius of attuning love to thrilling heights without a touch of coarse materialism. Withal she builds on a practical place, since her characterization is human.”—_Chicago Journal._

The Spinster Book

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“A gem in a dainty, attractive, and artistic setting.... Miss Reed is delightfully witty, delightfully humorous, delightfully cynical, delightfully sane, and, above all, delightfully spontaneous. The pages sparkle with bright, clear wit; they bubble with honest, hearty humor; they contain many stings, but no savage thrusts.... A magazine of epigrams for a rapid-firing gun.”—_Philadelphia Telegraph._

Love Letters of a Musician } } Two Vols. Later Love Letters of a Musician }

12º. Gilt top each, $1.75 Full crimson morocco, in a box ” 2.50

“Miss Reed’s books are exquisite prose poems—words strung on thought-threads of gold—in which a musician tells his love for one whom he has found to be his ideal. The idea is not new, but the opinion is ventured that nowhere has it been one-half so well carried out. The ecstacy of hope, the apathy of dispair, alternate in these enchanting letters, without one line of cynicism to mar the beauty of their effect.”—_Rochester Herald._

The Shadow of Victory

A Romance of Fort Dearborn (early Chicago)

12º. With frontispiece net, $1.20 Full crimson morocco ” 2.00

“A sweet and wholesome as well as highly artistic novel, deserving of the highest praise. A story that warms every reader’s heart and makes him regret that he has reached the end.”—_Nashville American._

“An astonishingly vigorous story.”—_N. Y. Sun._

The Master’s Violin

Uniform with “Lavender and Old Lace.”

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This is a captivating love story written in Miss Reed’s happiest vein. The thousands who have enjoyed the gentle humor and delicate sentiment of “Lavender and Old Lace” will find the same qualities expressed in “The Master’s Violin.”

The Book of Clever Beasts

Studies in Unnatural History

Fully illustrated by PETER NEWELL

12º.

A humorous book, hitting off the many writers who have returned to Nature and made intimate friends in the Animal World. The author describes the super-human intelligence to be found by the discerning among our kindred of the wild. All those who love gentle humor will be entertained by the whimsical story of “Little Upsidaisi,” and no reader can fail to laugh at the antics of “Jagg, the Skootaway Goat.”

The illustrations by Peter Newell are in this clever artist’s happiest vein and bring out to the full the humor of the text.

New York—G. P. PUTNAM’S SONS—London

TRANSCRIBER’S NOTE

Punctuation has been normalized. Variations in hyphenation have been retained as they were in the original publication.

Italicized phrases are presented by surrounding the text with _underscores_.

End of Project Gutenberg's The Book of Clever Beasts, by Myrtle Reed