How to be Happy Though Married Part 25

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I. Aquelarre.

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VII. The Song of Lamia.

VIII. Virgin of the Five Towns.

IX. Chaunt of the Crucified.

X.-XI. The Raids. The Holy War.

XII. The Prophecy of Lara.

XIII. Hurca Mendi.

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By Author of "How to be Happy though Married."

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_The First Edition of "Manners Makyth Man" was exhausted on the day of Publication. A Second Edition is now ready._

EXTRACT FROM PREFACE.--"I am showing my grat.i.tude to the public for their very kind reception of 'How to be Happy though Married'

by now presenting to them another little book with my best 'manners!' It is not a book of etiquette, for I am by no means a master of ceremonies; nor does the motto of Winchester College, 'Manners Makyth Man,' refer to those social rules and forms which are often only subst.i.tutes for good manners, but rather to manners in the old sense of the word which we see in the text, 'Evil communications corrupt good manners.'"

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CONTENTS.--Part I.--A Comtist Lover: Being a Dialogue on Positivism and the Zeitgeist--The Extension of the Law of Kindness: Being an Essay on the Rights of Animals. Part II.--The Delphine of Madame de Stael--Some Immortality--Thoughts--Some Novels of William Black.