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Excerpt from The Sketch Book of Fashion, Vol. 1 of 2: The Second Marriage, My Place in the Country, The PavilionTn]: following Tales form the last of a series of Nevels, of a class created by the peculiar spirit of the last reign, and manifestly at variance with that of the present times. These sketchy performances, although favoured with critical praise fir beyond their pretensions or deserts, have in some instances been blamed for pungency o...

Excerpt from Birthright, Vol. 2 of 3: And Other TalesFew districts in Europe are more devoid of local interest than the frontier-country between Belgium and France: especially at its maritime extremity, towards Western Flanders, where dykes and ditches, and an ill-favoured, aguish lookin g population a¿'ord incontrovertible testi mony to the fenny nature of the soil. In that ¿at and dreary landscape, Where a canal becomes an interesting featur...

Excerpt from Sketches of English Character, Vol. 2 of 2High station and a low mind are indis pensable to the success of such a vocation, a vocation more rarely embraced for con science sake, than at the instigation of some active philanthropist, who plays upon the weakness of the great lady, and engages her services in behalf of more deserving persons.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books....

Excerpt from The Banker's Wife, or Court and City, Vol. 2 of 3: A NovelYour father begged me to tell you, Walter, said Mrs. Hamlyn, embracing her son with a dejected air, as she was about to enter the carriage for her journey that he had half promised Colonel Hamilton you would dine with him to-day. Do, my dear son, if not very disagreeable to you! You have no reasonable excuse, for the Colonel is aware that you are staying here alone 3'About ...

Excerpt from Hungarian Tales, Vol. 1 of 3I venture to record these unimportant circumstances, to shew' that while our sole or chief acquaintance with Hungary is derived from Dr. Bright's excellent volume, there is scarcely an event of English life, -a folly of London fashion, or an invention of British industry, which does not find admirers and com mentators and imitators, among the Hun garians of respectable degree.About the PublisherForgotte...

Excerpt from The Man of Business, or Stokeshill PlaceSuch was the urgency of the correspondence which had left Mr. Barnsley only seven minutes and three seconds, to debate with his only child on a measure involving her happiness for life!About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books use...

Excerpt from Mothers and Daughters, Vol. 3 of 3: A Tale of the Year 1830Meanwhile Lady Maria, who saw that it was equally her personal interest to get rid of her elder daughters by matrimony, and to hug her youngest to her heart in single blessedness, disposed herself for the eager prosecution of this twofold measure. Like a skilful general, she addressed herself in the first instance to the numeration and disposition of her forces, cal culati...

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Excerpt from The Man of Fortune, Vol. 1 of 2: And Other Tales His nearest relatives were cousins, the sons of uncles, who had tormented him with advice and interference in his youth. He hated the whole pack of them. They were the Master Goodchilds who had been set up as examples to his boy hood. Of their children he knew nothing, he wished to know nothing, chiefly because their injudicious parents were always tormenting him with letters conce...

Excerpt from Progress and Prejudice, Vol. 2 of 2 He did not hear the gasping sigh that burst from the bosom of his companion. He was listening only to himself. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserv...

Excerpt from The Man of Business, or Stokeshill Place Such was the urgency of the correspondence which had left Mr. Barnsley only seven minutes and three seconds, to debate with his only child on a measure involving her happiness for life! About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten B...

Excerpt from Sketches of English Character, Vol. 2 of 2High station and a low mind are indis pensable to the success of such a vocation, a vocation more rarely embraced for con science sake, than at the instigation of some active philanthropist, who plays upon the weakness of the great lady, and engages her services in behalf of more deserving persons.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books....

Excerpt from Paris in 1841 IT has long been proverbially said, e poi See Naples, and die! As if no scene or city could thenceforward interest the attention. It might be said with equal justice, See Paris, and live! To the hypochondriac, to the invalid, better advice could scarcely be given. The elasticity of the atmosphere, the dry ness of the soil which forms a perpetual filter, and, above all, the clearness of sky produced by the consumptio...

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Excerpt from The Banker's Wife, or Court and City, Vol. 1 of 3: A Novel Dear Sir, I cannot more strongly mark that the following pages are intended to exhibit the failings of an individual, not as an attack upon a class, than by placing at the head of my work the name of one who, ancestrally connected for the last two centuries with the banking profession in a house of business which has existed in the same spot since the year 1650, has add...