Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from An Octave of Friends: With Other Silhouettes and Stories
These stories and sketches were written in the days of crinoline, croquet, and the violent purples. Of the then new aniline dyes. The stories somewhat betray their date, but the sketches are still true of the people one daily meets in Vanity Fair. Like all caps made for types, not individuals, they fit as well to - day as yesterday. The various archaic little touches which come into this bygone work demand this short explanation for each genera tion has its own hall-marks, and what was the.
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