_The Florist_, alone, thoughtfully turning over the papers on his counter: "That is sdrainche that I mage that mistake about the attress! I can't find the oder one anwhere; and if I lost it, what am I coing to do with the rhoces the other lady ortert?" He steps back and looks at his feet, and then stoops and picks up a paper, which he examines. "Ach! here it iss! Zlipped down behindt. Now I don't want to get it mixed with that oder any more." He puts it down at the left, and takes up the address for the young man's roses on the right; he stares at the two addresses in a stupefaction. "That is very sdrainche too. Well!" He drops the papers with a shrug, and goes on arranging the flowers. THE RIVERSIDE PRESS PRINTED BY H. O. HOUGHTON & CO. CAMBRIDGE, MASS. U.S.A. _Plays and Poems_ BY WILLIAM DEAN HOWELLS A Counterfeit Presentment. 18mo, $1.25. Out of the Question. 18mo, $1.25. The Sleeping-Car, and other Farces. 12mo, $1.00. The Elevator; The Sleeping-Car; The Parlor Car; The Register. Each 50 cents. Room Forty-Five; Bride Roses; An Indian Giver; The Smoking-Car. (_The last two in Press._) Each, 18mo, 50 cents. A Sea Change. $1.00. Poems. 12mo, parchment cover, $2.00. _For Mr. Howells's novels and books of travel_, see Catalogue. _Houghton, Mifflin and Company_ BOSTON AND NEW YORK