Social Llife & Customs Books

Letters on the Moral and Religious State of South America

D.D. James Thomson

I am now about to return to that quarter of the world, and trust that the same gracious hand which protected me and guided me in my former wanderings there, will still conduct me, and will enable me t..

The History of the Manners and Customs of Ancient Greece, Volume 1 (of 3)

James Augustus St. John

The Athenian people, on this and similar occasions, xxiiwere enabled to resolve and perform boldly from the generous spirit inspired by their national system of education. Their institutions, also, we..

Peaks of Shala

Rose Wilder Lane

The wooden saddles were three-sided boxes made of peeled branches; padded beneath with sheepskins, they fitted over the ponies’ backs. On top of them our blankets were packed; saddlebags hung from the..

THISTLEDOWN

Robert Ford

An eminently learned and genial ex-Professor of one of our Universities not long since pointed out how Scotland was remarkable for three things—Songs, Sermons, and Shillings. And whilst it may not be ..

The Slaves of Society: A Comedy in Covers

Allen Upward

While the marchioness was confiding her maternal anxieties to Mr. Despencer’s sympathetic ear, her daughter, Lady Victoria Mauleverer, was engaged in calmly defying her affectionate parent’s behests.&..

Three Loving Ladies

Mrs. Dowdall

One great source of mental nourishment that Evangeline relied on at this time was the Press. Two thirds of the things she thought about each day came from the newspapers, plain or illustrated, but not..

Twenty Years' Residence among the People of Turkey

Fanny Janet Sandison Blunt

The book has been divided into four parts. In the first, the general characteristics of the various races of Turkey are sketched. Very little is said about their history, for it is not the history but..

The History of the Manners and Customs of Ancient Greece, Volume 2 (of 3)

James Augustus St. John

The marriage of brothers with their own sisters was, in later ages, considered illegal; not so with respect to half sisters by the fathers’s side, whom no law forbade men to marry. Still the recorded ..