Wonderful insight into the feelings, social conditions, and lifestyles and outlooks of the times can be gleaned from the pages of these entertaining short stories of life in the urban Northeast of America during the late Victorian age. The pages capture the fast-paced physical growth of the country and of science, the spirit of the people; and that co-existance and transition of the world of the horse, oil lamp, and letter to that of the railroads, electric lights, machinery, and telegraphs.