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Show I A BRIGHT, JOLLY GIRL. The Digressions of Polli'. .By Helen Rowland. Tho Baker & Taylor Co.. publishers, New York. A very lively series of chapters, the dialogue being between Polly and her devoted, de-voted, and tho Aavor of it all lnovltably recalls Anthony Hope's "Dolly Dialogues." Dia-logues." Polly is. a bright, gay girl, who spars continually with her Aance. and has tho better of it so often that the only reply he can make, is to stop her mouth In the usual lover way. And sho scorns to Invito It, too, as tho way may be under un-der such conditions. There is often a sly push of admirable sense and keen observation obser-vation under the apparent frivolity; and the whole makes up a series of chapters full of wit and charm. Tho titles glvo a hint of the contents, viz.: "The Management Manage-ment of Yachts and Men." "The Lost Art of Proposing." "Effcctlvo Imperfections." Imperfec-tions." "Tho Sin of tho Cigarette." "Little "Lit-tle Tests for Modern Lovers." "Llttlo Rehearsals Re-hearsals for Matrimony." "Tho Morning After Love." "In Dcfenso of Plato." "Frills and the Man." "The Gentle Art of Jilting." "Making Over a Wife." "Summer "Sum-mer Love and Winter Matrimony." "Man and the Family Cat." "Man's Argument Argu-ment and woman's Reason." "Lovo and Other Letters." "The Girl Across the Street." "Woman and tho Other Woman." Wo-man." "Woman at Her Best." "The 'Business of Matrimony. " "Shopping for a Man." "Roses and Potatoes." "The Folly of Confessions." "When Modern Woman Marries." There nrp four Ane Illustrations, besides tho frontispiece . In color. It is an attractive volume, the publishers having put It forth In excellent excel-lent style. |