Social Llife & Customs Books
Cliquot - A Racing Story of Ideal Beauty
Kate Lee FergusonCliquot, 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 GilbeyOnly 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 ChekhovStories 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 NicholsonEthel 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 GunsaulusThe 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 AthertonClive 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 ShikibuGENJI 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 ..
Waheenee: An Indian Girl's Story
Gilbert Livingstone WilsonThe Hidatsas, called Minitaris by the Mandans, are a Siouan tribe and speak a language closely akin to that of the Crows. Wars with the Dakota Sioux forced them to ally themselves with the Mandans, wh..