Published in 1894. Contents include: Child life -- Courtship and marriage customs -- Domestic service -- Home interiors -- Table Plenishings -- Supplies of the larder -- Old colonial drinks and drinkers -- Travel, tavern and turnpike -- Holidays and festivals -- Sports and diversions -- Books and book-makers -- "Artifices of handsomeness" -- Raiment and vesture -- Doctors and patients -- Funeral and burial customs. Cover illustration from "Young...

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German classic about a young romantic's life and suicide which sparked a rash of suicide in the 18th century.

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