The Girl Question. Founded on the Play of Will M. Hough and Frank R. Adams. Illustrations by Gordon Grant.

Octavo, green cloth (hardcover), full-color ilus. paper label, tissue-protected frontis., uncut, 216 pp + [i] pp ad. Good, with upper hinge starting, light foxing to covers. From first chapter: It was busy Chicago's busy lunch hour, and in the Golden Palance restuarant the clatter of knives and forks and crockery mingled with the hum of conversation like the continuous firing of a Gatling gun. Situated in La Salle Street, the Golden Palace was frequented chiefly by business men and clerks who had little time or inclination to dally with the delicacies which constituted a standing libel on the high=sounding names with which they were designated on the menu. After the manner of business men in the middle of the day in all American cities they bolted their food with reckleses disregard of the consequences to their digestive apparatus, but each and all foudn time to linger over the settling of his check at the cashier's desk. For behind the desk sat Elsie Davis, and when it is explained that she was reputed to be one of the handsomest women in the city; that she was vivacious in the extreme, and that it was her custom to lean forward and pin a carnation on the coat of every male patron as he handed over the money in settlement of his bill, the secret of the restaurant's popularity will be apparent o everybody, and none will be the least bit surprised by the additional statement that in the process of being decorated with the flower in the full sunlight of Miss Davis' smile, many a flattered diner neglected or gallantly "forgot" to gather up the change which she placed upon the desk. Elsie Davis was tall, blonde, rosey complexioned, with big violet eyes and white even teeth. Literature. yslic.…