Social Llife & Customs Books

A Day in Old Athens

William Stearns Davis

This little book tries to describe what an intelligent person would see and hear in ancient Athens, if by some legerdemain he were translated to the fourth century B.C. and conducted about the city un..

The Lights and Shadows of Real Life

T. S. Arthur

To 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..

Words for the Wise

T. S. Arthur

THE 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..

Woman's Trials; Or, Tales and Sketches from the Life around Us

T. S. Arthur

THE 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..

From a College Window

Arthur Christopher Benson

Twelve 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..

It Is Never Too Late to Mend

Charles Reade

Readers 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..

Papa Hamlet

Bjarne P. Holmsen

Noch um eine Nuance verdsterter hatte sich jetzt der groáe Thienwiebel wieder rcklings ber das kleine, niedrige, mit blauem Kattun berspannte Sofa geworfen und starrte nun ber die Spitzen seiner grnen..

A Hazard of New Fortunes

William Dean Howells

Howell’s novel is set in New York of the late nineteenth century, a city familiar to readers of Edith Wharton and Henry James. Basil March, a businessman from Boston of a literary bent, moves with his..