Arthur, T. S. (Timothy Shay) 1809-1885

Ten nights in a bar-room, and what I saw there by T. S Arthur ( Book )
119 editions published between 1800 and 2002 in English and Undetermined and held by 1,501 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
"Ten Nights in a Bar-Room" gives a series of sharply drawn sketches of scenes, some of them touching in the extreme, and some dark and terrible. Step by step the author traces the downward course of the tempting vender [sic] and his infatuated victims, until both are involved in hopeless ruin. -- Cf. Publisher's preface

True riches, or, Wealth without wings by T. S Arthur ( )
39 editions published between 1852 and 2008 in English and Undetermined and held by 535 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
A fair day's business. A very fair day's business, said Leonard Jasper, as he closed a small account-book, over which he had been pouring, pencil in hand, for some ten minutes. The tone in which he spoke expressed more than ordinary gratification. "To what do the sales amount?" asked a young man, clerk to the dealer, approaching his principal as he spoke. "To just two hundred dollars, Edward. It's the best day we've had for a month." "The best, in more than one sense," remarked the young man, with a meaning expression. "You're right there, too," said Jasper, with animation, rubbing his hands together as he spoke, in the manner of one who is particularly well pleased with himself. "I made two or three trades that told largely on the sunny side of profit and loss account." "True enough. Though I've been afraid, ever since you sold that piece of velvet to Harland's wife, that you cut rather deeper than was prudent." "Not a bit of it - not a bit of it! Had I asked her three dollars a yard, she would have wanted it for two

Advice to young men on their duties and conduct in life by T. S Arthur ( Book )
34 editions published between 1847 and 2013 in English and held by 439 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

The History of New Jersey from its earliest settlement to the present time by W. H Carpenter ( )
23 editions published between 1853 and 2000 in English and held by 369 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Ten nights in a bar-room by T. S Arthur ( Book )
27 editions published between 1854 and 2006 in English and held by 350 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
Reveals the degrading effects of alcohol. Set in a small western town around 1910, this is the story of a well-respected man who avoids the local saloon until by chance he succumbs to drink and his life falls apart

The history of Georgia : from its earliest settlement to the present time by T. S Arthur ( Book )
35 editions published between 1852 and 2007 in English and held by 338 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Strong drink the curse and the cure by T. S Arthur ( Book )
12 editions published between 1877 and 1970 in English and held by 317 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Friends and neighbours, or, Two ways of living in the world by T. S Arthur ( Book )
37 editions published between 1856 and 2000 in English and held by 305 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Advice to young ladies in their duties and conduct in life by T. S Arthur ( Book )
39 editions published between 1847 and 2003 in English and held by 295 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

The hand but not the heart by T. S Arthur ( Book )
25 editions published between 1854 and 2010 in English and Undetermined and held by 284 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
The trials and sufferings of Jesse Loring, and her adherence to the Chrisitan views of the marriage contract will, we repeat, leave good, practical, and we hope lasting, impressions upon the minds of those disposed to take warning from her errors, or to be encouraged by her virtues. We conceive that we do know something of the evil consequences, in after years, of the ungoverned impulses and mistaken ideas of early life