BY AGNES ACONITE Containing 8 full-page illustrations by Patten Hairback. _Small square demy 8vo., cloth, gilt top_ =By Post, 5/4= =PRICE 5/- NET= =By Post, 5/4= _Some Press Opinions_ “One of the most fascinating of interior decorations, the potentialities of the Whatnot are so little known to the majority of people that this story of its possibilities is of the greatest interest.” _Congressional Record._ “In Miss Aconite’s book the Whatnot is drawn so vividly that the reader seems to see it covered with actual seashells, cut glass and cabinet photographs, and follows its career with interest right to its tragic close, when it is broken up to provide fuel during a coal strike.” _Herrin (Ill.) Garroter._ “Miss Aconite knows the Whatnot as it is in its haunts, and she presents it with such remarkable clearness and insight that you long to throw a rock at it.” _Moscow Izvestia._ —————————————————— End of Book —————————————————— Transcriber’s Note (continued) Errors in punctuation and simple typos have been corrected without note. Variations in spelling, hyphenation, accents, etc., have been left as they appear in the original publication unless as stated in the following: Page 6 – “solecism ending” changed to “solecism of ending” (solecism of ending a sentence prepositionally) Page 56 – “Bastile” changed to “Bastille” (fall of the Bastille) Page 90 – “painting” changed to “paintings” (paintings of anæmic bunches of flowers) Page 144 – “Brentôme” changed to “Brantôme” (Brantôme, Rabelais, and Casanova) ———— Footnotes are placed immediately below the paragraph in which the reference to that footnote appears.