Social Llife & Customs Books

Jane--Our Stranger - A Novel

Mary Borden

Under the aged shadowy eaves of that room, full of strange old symbols and rare books and still rarer manuscripts, where so many ideas and faiths and records had been sifted, examined and relegated to..

Cliquot - A Racing Story of Ideal Beauty

Kate Lee Ferguson

Cliquot, a bright and peculiarly interesting novel in which burning love and a wonderfully exciting episode of the race-course are the chief ingredients, is the production of Kate Lee Ferguson, one of..

Early Carriages and Roads

Sir Walter Gilbey

Only some three hundred and fifty years have elapsed since wheeled conveyances for passengers came into use in England; but, once introduced, they rapidly found favour with all classes of society, mor..

Russian Silhouettes

Anton Chekhov

Stories of childhood: The boys. Grisha. A trifle from real life. The cook's wedding. Shrove Tuesday. In passion week. An incident. A matter of classics. The tutor. Out of sorts -- Stories of youth: A ..

Broken Barriers

Meredith Nicholson

Ethel and her father were almost equally out of sympathy. Ethel was intensely religious, zealous in attendance upon a down-town church, a teacher in its Sunday school and active in its young people’s ..

The Japanese New Year’s Festival, Games and Pastimes

Helen Cowen Gunsaulus

The Japanese prints with which we are most familiar in this country are those known as nishikiye, literally “brocade picture.” Generally speaking, they are portraits of actors and famous beauties or l..

A Whirl Asunder

Gertrude Atherton

Clive walked idly about the little waiting-room. The walls were decorated with illustrated weekly newspapers, and the gratuitous lithograph. John L. Sullivan, looking, under the softening influence of..

The Sacred Tree

Murasaki Shikibu

GENJI is an illegitimate son of the Emperor; his mother dies soon after his birth. At the age of twelve he is affianced to Lady Aoi, the daughter of the Minister of the Left; but she is older than he ..