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Title: The Spinster Book

Author: Myrtle Reed

Release Date: March 29, 2006 [EBook #18071]

Language: English

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The Spinster Book

By Myrtle Reed

G. P. PUTNAM'S SONS
New York and London
The Knickerbocker Press

1907

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COPYRIGHT, 1901
BY
MYRTLE REED

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Set up and electrotyped, September, 1901

Reprinted, November, 1901; April, 1902; August, 1902; April, 1903;
July, 1903; September, 1903; June, 1904; October, 1904; June, 1905;
September, 1905; March, 1906; September, 1906; November, 1906;
July, 1907.

The Knickerbocker Press, New York

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BY MYRTLE REED.

LOVE LETTERS OF A MUSICIAN.
LATER LOVE LETTERS OF A MUSICIAN.
THE SPINSTER BOOK.
LAVENDER AND OLD LACE.
PICKABACK SONGS.
THE SHADOW OF VICTORY.
THE MASTER'S VIOLIN.
THE BOOK OF CLEVER BEASTS.
AT THE SIGN OF THE JACK-O'-LANTERN.
A SPINNER IN THE SUN.
LOVE AFFAIRS OF LITERARY MEN.

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Contents

PAGE

Notes on Men 3
Concerning Women 25
The Philosophy of Love 49
The Lost Art of Courtship 71
The Natural History of Proposals 93
Love Letters: Old and New 115
An Inquiry into Marriage 137
The Physiology of Vanity 161
Widowers and Widows 183
The Consolations of Spinsterhood 205

Notes on Me