The Wellesley Prelude, Vol. 1

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Excerpt from The Wellesley Prelude, Vol. 1: September 21, 1889 Sweet Brier. By M. E. N. Sherwood. Boston D. Lothrop Co. Price Following the present fashion which finds in house keeping and recipes excuse for story-telling, Mrs. Sherwood has made of her Sweet Brier a sugar-coated dose of social etiquette. The heroine, Phyllis Gatewood, is introduced as an unlessoned girl from a country town. She is disci plined somewhat abruptly and severely by a summer flitting from Saratoga to Richfield, from Richfield to Newport and from Newport to Lennox, under the auspices of a fashionable aunt. Then follows a winter of study and gayety in New York. The girl at first learns the false and cruel side of that mysterious thing Society, but later by the aid of an amiable cousin, and of the friendly rector who prepared her for confirmation, she learns that much of conventionalism consists in true self-control and kindness, and that there are nobler traits in character than her own vaunted indepen dence. Phyllis is beautiful, clever and affectionate. For some unexplained reason she dances well, though she eats with her knife and drinks from her finger-b0 l In the course of the story she is instructed in the code of dining, visiting, letter-writing and general confor mity, and the book may be recommended as a hand book oi the minor morals. The costumes, menus and wedding-festivities suggest the columns of a society journal, and one is prejudiced at first against leading characters of the story by the astonishing information that the tone of the Bestwick household was too high and too thoroughbred for quarrels. 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, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.