Excerpt from The House: An Episode in the Lives of Reuben Baker, Astronomer, and of His Wife Alice

The story that is told in this volume is I as surely an autobiography as if that announcement were a part of the title: and it also has the peculiar and significant distinction of being in some sort the biography of every man and woman who enters seriously upon the business of life.

In its pages is to be found the history of the heart's desire of all who are disposed to take the partnership of man and woman seriously. The instinct - the desire - call it what you will - that is herein set forth with such gentle humor is as old as humanity, and all literature that contains germs of permanence teems with its influence. But never before has it had so painstaking a biographer - so deft and subtle an interpreter.

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