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THE FREE LANCE BOOKS VI.
EDITED WITH INTRODUCTIONS BY H. L. MENCKEN
IN DEFENSE
OF WOMEN

By

H. L. MENCKEN

NEW YORK
ALFRED - A - KNOPF MCMXXIII


COPYRIGHT 1918 BY
ALFRED A. KNOFF, INC
COPYRIGHT 1922 BY
ALFRED A. KNOFF, INC
first Published 1918
Second Printing 1918
Third Printing 1919
Revised, Rest, and Republished Jan. 1920
Second Printing May, 1922
Fourth Printing August 1923
Set up, electrotyped, and printed by the Vail-Ballou Co.
Binghamton, N.Y
.
Paper supplied by P. Etherington & Co.
New York.

Bound by the Pimpton Press,
Norwood, Mass.

MANUFACTURED IN THE
UNITED STATES OF AMERICA.