The
Spinster
Book

By Myrtle Reed

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

1907

Copyright, 1901
BY
MYRTLE REED

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

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.

Contents

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[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 Men