This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1913 edition. Excerpt: ...in America enervate her spiritual nature. In the Golden House where this pair dwell the reader's attention is concentrated on another couple. _ack Delaney is ruined by tlus self-indulgent society; but his ruin saves his character. A good picture of Society in New Y1'k-(1) $1.50, Harper, New York; 6s., ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1913 edition. Excerpt: ...in America enervate her spiritual nature. In the Golden House where this pair dwell the reader's attention is concentrated on another couple. _ack Delaney is ruined by tlus self-indulgent society; but his ruin saves his character. A good picture of Society in New Y1'k-(1) $1.50, Harper, New York; 6s., Low; (2) $2 (6s.), Harper New Y1'k life. particularly in the financial world, the ins and onts of which are described with minute knowledge. The story is almost buried in detail. $r_,5o (6s.), Harper. WARNER, Susan " Elizabeth E. Wetherell "; 1819-85. The Wide, _ Wide World. Juvenile I850 Pictures of past life and manners in New England, charged with pious evangelical teaching, and by a very lachrymose pathos; the characters and incidents are of a thoroughly homely Z Queechy. juvenile 1852 A book of similar piety and sentiment. 75c., Lippincott, Philadelphia; 3s. 6d., 2s., 1s., Routledge. WATERL00, Stanley b. I846. The Story of Ab I a Tale of the time of the Cave Man. 1897 A lively reconstruction of the Stone Age and the life of the cave-men. $1.50, Doubleday, New York; 3s. 6d., Black. Wasrcorr, Edward Noyes 1847-98. David Harum: a Story of American Life. 1898 A desultory book unified by the personality of an old banker, David Harum, a man shrewd but illiterate, more ready to cheat than to be cheated, who is averred to be a correct representation of the Yankees of rural New York. His invincible shrcwdness and pawky humour, his sayings flavoured with " horse slang," made an immediate hit as a revelation of local character. 50c., 50c. n., Appleton, New York; 6s., Pearson. WHITE, Eliza Orne b. 1856. Miss Brooks. I890 Social life in Boston, and the fortunes of a small group of people. Ordinary life recorded with an eye for...
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1932. Macmillan. Hard Cover. Book-VG, gilt titles on spine, blue boards. 11x9. 634pp. IF ORDERING OUTSIDE THE UK PLEASE ENQUIRE ABOUT EXTRA POSTAGE COSTS BEFORE ORDERING.
