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unted Bookshop" which was never released, though it was written before the book was published. Can you guess the writer of it? We're not at liberty to tell, for he would never forgive our mentioning his name. "THIS SHOP IS HAUNTED!" Such was the sign that met the eyes of those who entered _Parnassus at Home_, a very unusual bookshop on Gissing Street, Brooklyn. Roger Mifflin, the eccentric booklover who owned the shop, only meant that his shop was haunted by the great spirits of literature, but there were more substantial ghosts about, as the story tells. Read the curious adventures that befell after Titania Chapman came to learn the book business in the mellow atmosphere of the second-hand bookshop of this novel. There was mystery connected with the elusive copy of Carlyle's _Oliver Cromwell_, which kept on disappearing from Roger's shelves. Some readers may remember that Roger Mifflin was the hero of Mr. Morley's first novel, _Parnassus on Wheels_, though this is in no sense a sequel, but an independent story. _The Haunted Bookshop, $1.75_ SHANDYGAFF This is the book at the beginning of which its author has placed this bit of explanation: _SHANDYGAFF_: a very refreshing drink, being a mixture of bitter ale or beer and ginger-beer, commonly drunk by the lower classes of England, and by strolling tinkers, low church parsons, newspaper men, journalists, and prizefighters.... JOHN MISTLETOE: _Dictionary of Deplorable Facts_ Published in the war period, "Shandygaff" brought this humorous letter from J. Edgar Park, of Massachusetts, Presbyterian pastor and author of "The Disadvantages of Being Good": "This book of Morley's is absolutely useless--mere rot. It has already cost me not only its price but also two candles for an all-night seance and an entire degeneration of my most sad and sober resolutions. Money I needed for shoes, solemnity I needed for my reputation--all have gone to the winds in this nightmare of love, laughter, boyishness, and tobacco-smoke!" _Shandygaff, $1.75_ PIPEFULS "These sketches gave me pain to write; they will give the judicious patron pain to read; therefore we are quits. I think, as I look over their slattern paragraphs, of that most tragic hour--it falls about 4 P.M. in the office of an evening newspaper--
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