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House & Garden 
How to Attain, Relish—and Survive — Society! 
A Book of Satirical 
Drawings by Fish 
Precepts by Dorothy Parker 
George S. Chappell 
and Frank Crowninshield 
A RE you in high society? Do you know its 
snares—and sneers? If you are—you’ll be 
delighted with this merciless exposure of the 
weaknesses of your dearest friends! If you 
aren’t—with this book in one hand (your cheque¬ 
book in the other) you can swim right into the 
smartest society, from your present social back¬ 
water—however submerged. You can, with no 
stop overs, wing your way from a Christian En¬ 
deavor sociable in Wigwag, Wyoming, to a dinner 
on gold plates in any Fifth Avenue palace. You 
might even dispense with your cheque-book— 
but never with this infallible social mentor and 
guide, “High Society,” by Fish. 
W HEN these remarkable drawings by a 
new hand began to appear in Vanity Fair, 
people stared at them, amazed, amused, admir¬ 
ing. Then they stared at each other, demand¬ 
ing, “Who under the sun is Fish?” 
M EANTIME a tall slender young girl of 
twenty-two was drawing these self-same 
pictures and troubling very little about the 
sweeping searchlight of Fame. That girl was 
destined to become one of the most distin¬ 
guished black-and-white illustrators. 
HIGH SOCIETY 
O N her miraculous drawing board. Miss 
Fish has created a complete human so¬ 
ciety, quite as original and amusing as the 
society of George du Maurier or Charles Dana 
Gibson. 
I N this book, the reader meets Fish’s social 
creations—the double-decked dowagers, 
vampires, horsey horsemen, diabolical little 
debutantes, tango addicts and bridge maniacs 
-—in short, every type that haunts the portals 
of our grandest marble and gold society. 
T HERE is beauty in Miss Fish’s extraor¬ 
dinary gallery, as well as caricature. The 
patterns on the flappers’ frocks are like laces 
and hangings Dy Beardsley. A Pomeranian on 
a rug becomes a patch of elegant scrollery, 
like something in a Japanese print. Even her 
profiteering millionaires become designs made 
up of deft and satisfying curves. 
r r 1 HESE drawings, as Vanity Fair readers and 
A art critics know, are the work, not only 
of a clever intelligence, but of a true artist. 
“High Society” is the smartest book of the season. Besides its 156 drawings and their entertaining 
captions, it is attractively bound and beautifully printed. “High Society” is published by G. P. 
Putnam’s Sons and will soon be on sale at all better class bookstores. Or you may fill out the coupon 
below and mail it with your cheque to us for one of the first copies off the press. Price $5.30, postpaid. 
Vanity Fair ... 19 West Forty-fourth Street . . . New York City . . . New York 
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