From a Girl's Point of View

Produced by Michelle Croyle, Ben Harris and PG Distributed Proofreaders
1897

THE LOVE AFFAIRS OF AN OLD MAID. 16mo, Cloth, Ornamental, Uncut Edges and Gilt Top, $1 25.
… The love affairs of an old maid are not her own, but other people's, and in this volume we have the love trials and joys of a variety of persons described and analyzed…. The peculiarity of this book is that each type is perfectly distinct, clear, and interesting…. Altogether the book is by far the best of those recently written on the tender passion.— Cincinnati Commercial-Gazette .
THE UNDER SIDE OF THINGS. A Novel. 16mo, Cloth, Ornamental, Uncut Edges and Gilt Top, $1 25.
A tenderly beautiful story…. This book is Miss Bell's best effort, and most in the line of what we hope to see her proceed in, dainty and keen and bright, and always full of the fine warmth and tenderness of splendid womanhood.— Interior , Chicago.

Dedicated
Since we deserved the name of friends, And thine effect so lives in me, A part of mine may live in thee, And move thee on to noble ends.
Every woman has had, at some time in her life, an experience with man in the raw. In reality, one cannot set down with any degree of accuracy the age when his rawness attacks him, or the time when he has got the last remnant of it out of his system. But a close study of the complaint, and the necessity for pigeon-holing everything and everybody, lead one to declare that somewhere in the vicinity of the age of thirty-five man emerges from his rawness and becomes a part of trained humanity—a humanity composed of men and women trained in the art of living together.
I am impressed with Professor Horton's remarks on this subject: It has sometimes struck me as very singular, he says, that while nothing is so common and nothing is so difficult as living with other people, we are seldom instructed in our youth how to do it well. Our knowledge of the subject is acquired by experience, chiefly by failures. And by the time that we have tolerably mastered the delicate art, we are on the point of being called to the isolation of the grave—or shall I say to the vast company of the Majority?