Side Lights
Published on 1. May 2015
193 pages
978-1-77659-016-2 (ISBN)
Description
Born in Northumberland in 1852, James Runciman was trained as a teacher and spent many years working as an educator. Once established in his career, he began penning personal essays and opinion pieces in his spare time. This collection brings together a number of his works on topics ranging from marriage to the ethics of writing.
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Content
- Intro
- Title
- Contents
- A Note on the Author by Grant Allen
- An Introductory Word About the Book by W.T. Stead
- I - Letter-Writers
- II - On Writing Oneself Out
- III - The Decline of Literature
- IV - Colour-Blindness in Literature
- V - The Surfeit of Books
- VI - People Who Are "Down
- VII - Ill-Assorted Marriages
- VIII - Happy Marriages
- IX - Shrews
- X - Are We Wealthy?
- XI - The Values of Labour
- XII - The Hopeless Poor
- XIII - Waifs and Strays
- XIV - Stage-Children
- XV - Public and Private Morality: Past and Present
- XVI - "Raising the Level of Amusements
- XVII - A Little Sermon on Failures
- XVIII - "Vanity of Vanities
- XIX - Gamblers
- XX - Scoundrels
- XXI - Quiet Old Towns
- XXII - The Sea
- XXIII - Sorrow
- XXIV - Death
- XXV - Journalism
- Endnotes
