Navigate the intricacies of social decorum with "Beadle's Dime Book of Practical Etiquette for Ladies and Gentlemen." This classic guide, penned by an anonymous author, offers timeless advice on manners, conduct, and etiquette. Whether attending a formal event or navigating daily interactions, this book provides invaluable insights into the art of polite behavior

Reprint of the original, first published in 1874.

Never Without a Song focuses on the centrality of folksong in the life of Jennie Devlin, a woman who worked for fourteen years as a "bound-out girl" along the New York-Pennsylvania border and later lived in Philadelphia and Gloucester, New Jersey. Katharine Newman met Devlin in 1936 and compiled information about the older woman's life and music. Half a century later, Newman returned to her collection in retirement-with her own perspective of age. The result is a unique biography of an American working-class woman, told with depth and candor. It includes "I Wish I'd Been Born a Boy," "James Bird," "Martha Decker," "My Grandmother's Old Armchair," and other pieces, both British and American, most with tunes.