Mrs. Burton Harrison

281 pages ; 21 cm

This is a book written to advise the turn of the 19th century woman about how to decorate her home in the 'modern' fashion, and includes illustrations and some colored plates. Part 1 covers Embroidery and includes a history of various stitches, Part 2 covers ways to decorate objects with Paint, and Part 3 is a room by room guide to adding decorative touches to the home. It has good explanations and suggestions for decorating items with the techniques covered. The design principles in this book are those of the Arts & Crafts movement, as shown by the cover, which has an embossed leather image done in an Arts & Crafts style and the opening quotation by William Morris.

This memoir, written fifty years after the Civil War, chronicles the author's wartime life as the fianc? of Jefferson Davis' private secretary.

Rip Van Winkle / Washington Irving [Young Goodman Brown]( / Nathaniel Hawthorne [Fall of the House of Usher]( / Edgar Allan Poe The lightning-rod man / Herman Melville The diamond lens / Fitzjames O'Brien The celebrated jumping frog of Calaveras County / Mark Twain The outcasts of Poker Flat / Bret Harte [Damned Thing]( / Ambrose Bierce The turn of the screw / Henry James The Hiltons' holiday / Sarah Orne Jewett The gift of the Magi / O. Henry The moving finger / Edith Wharton The open boat / Stephen Crane Lou, the prophet / Willa Cather The men of Forty Mile / Jack London Babylon revisited / F. Scott Fitzgerald [A rose for Emily]( William Faulkner Big two-hearted river / Ernest Hemingway Flight / John Steinbeck