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From the ball room and dance halls to hell ; the right and wrong of dancing and society
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Dick's quadrille call-book, and ball-room prompter ... : To which is added a sensible guide to etiquette and proper deportment in the ball and assembly room, besides seventy pages of dance music for the piano
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The Negro: his rights and wrongs, the forces for him and against him
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