Our Neighbors in the Corner House — T.S. Arthur / Timothy Shay Arthur

Has anyone met the new neighbors in the corner house? Where are they from? Why have they moved here? Why is she dressed all in black? They are objects of curious speculation among the neighbors, a mystery to be solved and ones to be talked about. T. S. Arthur's Our Neighbors in the Corner House is a novel featuring a quiet neighborhood and curious folk. This, like Arthur's novels are of a high moral and filled with character-building lessons. His works are wholesome, inculcate morality and purify the feelings - by tastefully illustrating the beauties of virtue, and the iniquities of vice. Timothy Shay Arthur was a popular 19th-century American author most famous for his temperance novel Ten Nights in a Bar-Room and What I Saw There. He was also the author of dozens of stories for Godey's Lady's Book. Arthur did much to articulate and disseminate the values, beliefs, and habits that defined respectable life in America. Arthur was one of the most popular and widely read author of his time.