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    “Crepe de Chine in oyster white will show the top of the dress
    embroidered to the knees in some unconventional design of black
    and a deeper shade of white.”—­Daily Paper.

    “The bridesmaid’s dress was of heavy white crepe-de-chine, of
    pale apricot shade.”—­Provincial Paper.

Canning must have had a premonition of the modern fashions when he wrote in The New Morality, “Black’s not so black, nor white so very white.”

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From a bookseller’s advertisement:—­

    “Mr. ——­ has the way of when you finish one of his most
    interesting books that you really cannot help yourself by
    reading all.” Newfoundland Paper.

Not being quite sure whether this is a compliment or not we have suppressed the distinguished author’s name.