Produced by David Edwards, Josephine Paolucci and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net. (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive.) [Illustration: Page 4 "WELL, THEN, I SHALL HAVE TO TRUST YOU"] EVENING DRESS _Farce_ BY W. D. HOWELLS ILLUSTRATED [Illustration] NEW YORK AND LONDON HARPER & BROTHERS PUBLISHERS Black and White Series Illustrated. 32mo, Cloth, 50 cents each. MY YEAR IN A LOG CABIN. By William Dean Howells. THE WORK OF WASHINGTON IRVING. By Charles Dudley Warner. EDWIN BOOTH. By Laurence Hutton. THE DECISION OF THE COURT. By Brander Matthews. PHILLIPS BROOKS. By the Rev. Arthur Brooks, D.D. GEORGE WILLIAM CURTIS. By John White Chadwick. THE RIVALS. By Francois Coppee. SLAVERY AND THE SLAVE TRADE IN AFRICA. By Henry M. Stanley. THE JAPANESE BRIDE. By Naomi Tamura. GILES COREY, YEOMAN. By Mary E. Wilkins. WHITTIER. By Mrs. James T. Fields. SEEN FROM THE SADDLE. By Isa Carrington Cabell. JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL. An Address. By George William Curtis. COFFEE AND REPARTEE. By John Kendrick Bangs. THREE WEEKS IN POLITICS. By John Kendrick Bangs. A FAMILY CANOE TRIP. By Florence Watters Snedeker. A LITTLE SWISS SOJOURN. By William Dean Howells. IN THE VESTIBULE LIMITED. By Brander Matthews. THIS PICTURE AND THAT. By Brander Matthews. TRAVELS IN AMERICA 100 YEARS AGO. By Thomas Twining. THE UNEXPECTED GUESTS.--A LETTER OF INTRODUCTION.--THE ALBANY DEPOT.--EVENING DRESS.--A LIKELY STORY.--THE MOUSE-TRAP.--THE GARROTERS.--FIVE O'CLOCK TEA. Farces. Each complete in one volume. By William Dean Howells. HARPER & BROTHERS, PUBLISHERS, NEW YORK AND LONDON. Copyright, 1893, by HARPER & BROTHERS. _All rights reserved._ ILLUSTRATIONS "WELL, THEN, I SHALL HAVE TO TRUST YOU" _Frontispiece_ "THE SLEEVES ARE A TRIFLE SHORT, MAYBE" _Faces p. 42_ THAT LITTLE SUPPER " 56 EVENING DRESS FARCE I