HEART-HISTORIES AND LIFE-PICTURES.
BYT. S. ARTHUR.
NEW YORK: CHARLES SCRIBNER, 145 NASSAU STREET.
1853.Entered, according to Act of Congress, in the year 1852, by CHARLES SCRIBNER, In the Clerk's Office of the District Court of the United States for the Southern District of New York.
INTRODUCTION.
So interested are we all in our every-day pursuits; so given up, body and mind, to the attainment of our own ends; so absorbed by our own hopes, joys, fears and disappointments, that we think rarely, if at all, of the heart-histories of others—of the bright and sombre life-pictures their eyes may look upon. And yet, every heart has its history: how sad and painful many of these histories are, let the dreamy eyes, the sober faces, the subdued, often mournful tones, of many that daily cross our paths, testify. An occasional remembrance of these things will cause a more kindly feeling towards others; and this will do us good, in withdrawing our minds from too exclusive thoughts of self.
Whatever tends to awaken our sympathies page: iv-v (Table of Contents) [View Page iv-v (Table of Contents) ] towards others, to interest us in humanity, is, therefore, an individual benefit as well as a common good. In all that we have written, we have endeavored to create this sympathy and awaken this interest; and so direct has ever been our purpose, that we have given less thought to those elegancies of style on which a literary reputation is often founded, than to the truthfulness of our many life-pictures. In the preparation of this volume, the same end has been kept in view, and its chief merit will be found, we trust, in its power to do good.
T. S. A.
PHILADELPHIA, December, 1852.CONTENTS.
- THE BOOK OF MEMORY, 7
- THE BRILLIANT AND THE COMMON-PLACE, 58
- JENNY LAWSON, 77
- SHADOWS, 131
- THE THANKLESS OFFICE, 146
- GOING TO THE SPRINGS, 155
- THE WIFE, 181
- NOT GREAT BUT HAPPY, 194
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- THE MARRIED SISTERS, 214
- GOOD-HEARTED PEOPLE, 235
- SLOW AND SURE, 256
- THE SCHOOL GIRL, 282
- UNREDEEMED PLEDGES, 301
- DON'T MENTION IT, 315
- THE HEIRESS, 341
