# Compromises

Author: Repplier, Agnes, 1855-1950

Genre: Category: Essays, Letters & Speeches

Language: English

License: Public domain

Source: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/73041

Amazon editions: https://www.amazon.com/s?k=Compromises+Repplier&tag=cyberlibrar00-20

## Summary

In an age when everybody is writing Reminiscences, and when nothing is left untold, we hear a great deal about the wit and brilliancy of former days and former conversations. Elderly gentlemen, conscious of an ever increasing dulness in life, would fain have us believe that its more vivacious characteristics vanished with their youth, and can never be tempted to return. Mournful prophecies anent the gradual decay of social gifts assail us on every side. Mr. Justin McCarthy, recalling with a sigh the group of semi-distinguished men who were wont to grace George Eliot’s Sunday afternoons, can “only hope that the art of talking is not destined to die out with the art of letter-writing.” Mr....

## Chapters

- [Part 3](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/compromises-73041/chapters/3/index.md)
- [Part 5](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/compromises-73041/chapters/5/index.md)
- [Part 7](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/compromises-73041/chapters/7/index.md)
- [Part 6](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/compromises-73041/chapters/6/index.md)
- [Part 4](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/compromises-73041/chapters/4/index.md)
- [Part 12](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/compromises-73041/chapters/12/index.md)
- [Part 1](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/compromises-73041/chapters/1/index.md)
- [Part 10](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/compromises-73041/chapters/10/index.md)
- [Part 2](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/compromises-73041/chapters/2/index.md)
- [Part 8](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/compromises-73041/chapters/8/index.md)
- [Part 11](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/compromises-73041/chapters/11/index.md)
- [Part 9](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/compromises-73041/chapters/9/index.md)
- [Part 13](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/compromises-73041/chapters/13/index.md)