Fiction Books
Off-Hand Sketches, a Little Dashed with Humor
T. S. ArthurTHE reader cannot but smile at some of the phases of life presented in this volume. Yet the smile will, in no case, the author thinks, be at the expense of humanity, good feeling, or virtue. Many of t..
The Lights and Shadows of Real Life
T. S. ArthurTo all, as they pass through the world, come "light and shadow." Though the sun may be in the heavens, clouds often intervene, and cast deep shadows about our footsteps. But, it is a truth which we ca..
The Son of My Friend
T. S. Arthur"Very likely," I answered. "Still, we cannot well help ourselves. Unless we give a party, we shall have to decline invitations in future. But there is no obligation resting on us to make it sensationa..
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..
It Is Never Too Late to Mend
Charles ReadeReaders hardened by the Times will not perhaps go so far as to weep over a body of traders for being reduced to the average condition of all other traders. But the individual trader, who fights for ex..
After the Storm
T. S. ArthurNO June day ever opened with a fairer promise. Not a single cloud flecked the sky, and the sun coursed onward through the azure sea until past meridian, without throwing to the earth a single shadow. ..
Cast Adrift
T. S. ArthurIN this romance of real life, in which the truth is stranger than the fiction, I have lifted only in part the veil that hides the victims of intemperance and other terrible vices—after they have falle..
The Allen House; Or, Twenty Years Ago and Now
T. S. ArthurWE point to two ways in life, and if the young man and maiden, whose feet are lingering in soft green meadows and flowery walks, will consider these two ways in sober earnest, before moving onward, an..