Classicly Books
The Wedding Guest - A Friend of the Bride and Bridegroom
T. S. ArthurTHERE is no relation in life so important—none involving so much of happiness or misery, as that of husband and wife. Yet, how rarely is it, that the parties when contracting this relation, have large..
Words for the Wise
T. S. ArthurTHE title of this book—"WORDS FOR THE WISE"—is too comprehensive to need explanation. May the lessons it teaches be "sufficient" as warnings, incentives and examples, to hundreds and thousands who rea..
Words of Cheer for the Tempted, the Toiling, and the Sorrowing
T. S. ArthurAS we pass on our way through the world, we find our paths now smooth and flowery, and now rugged and difficult to travel. The sky, bathed in golden sunshine to-day, is black with storms to-morrow! Th..
Lessons in Life, for All Who Will Read Them
T. S. Arthur"WE are never too old to learn;" is a truism that cannot be repeated too often, if, in the repetition, we do not lose the force of the sentiment. In fact, at every stage of existence we are learners; ..
Woman's Trials; Or, Tales and Sketches from the Life around Us
T. S. ArthurTHE title of this volume sufficiently indicates its purpose. The stories of which it is composed have been mainly written with the end of creating for woman, in the various life-trials through which s..
At Large
Arthur Christopher BensonYes, of course it is an experiment! But it is made in corpore vili. It is not irreparable, and there is no reason, more's the pity, why I should not please myself. I will ask—it is a rhetorical questi..
From a College Window
Arthur Christopher BensonTwelve of the essays included in this volume appeared in the Cornhill Magazine. My best thanks are due to the proprietor and editor of the Cornhill Magazine for kind permission and encouragement to re..
The Altar Fire
Arthur Christopher BensonIt will perhaps be said, and truly felt, that the following is a morbid book. No doubt the subject is a morbid one, because the book deliberately gives a picture of a diseased spirit. But a pathologic..