“There are several cheap books on the polishing rag before the public, but we do not know a better than the one now under consideration.” Boston Transcript.
“This is a rotten book. It is reactionary throughout. Somebody ought to shoot the author.” The New Republic.
“Elaborate explanations are carefully avoided, except in the recipes for furniture polish. The reader who patiently works through these different recipes, especially the one on how to make sherry-flavored polish out of scored prunes, will have an accurate and worth-while knowledge of the possibilities of furniture polishing.” The Police Gazette.
CROSSING THE ANTIQUE DEALER
By M. Spickering Queek
Containing 8 full-page dress-patterns for concealed pockets, and 50 smaller designs for home-made brass-knuckles, tear-gas and slung-shots.
Large square crown 8vo., gilt top
By Post, 5/4 PRICE 5/- NET By Post, 5/4
These stories of outwitting the antique-dealer in city, village and country will be read with much zest by all lovers of the antique. They are brightly written, and are the outcome of long experience at picking up rare autographed books that could not be acquired by purchase, and at outwitting the antique-dealer at his own game. We sympathize with the antique-hunter when the wicked dealer attempts to charge him seventeen dollars for a Benjamin Franklin cup-plate needed to round out his collection, and we rejoice when the hunter slips out in full view of the dealer, leaving his monocle on the counter and using the cup-plate as his monocle. There are equally stirring stories of Sheraton high-boys, an old Colonial cradle, a 36-year-old bottle of Glenlivet whiskey, and an original box of Haskell golf balls with seal unbroken.
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