Modes and Morals: By Katharine Fullerton Gerould. (Inhalt: The New Simplicity.- Dress and the Woman.- Caviare on Principle.- The Extirpation of Culture.- Fashions in Men.- The Newest Woman.- Tabu and Temperament.- The Boundaries of Truth.- Miss Alcott's New England.- The Sensual Ear.- British Novelists, Ltd.- The Remarkable Rightness of Rudyard Kipling.)

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Charles Scribner's Sons, 1920 - 278 psl.

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