Excerpt from First Harvests: An Episode in the Life of Mrs. Lawson Gower; A Satire Without a Moral But our great city is too great, too human, to Show us much Of this. Like most fecund mothers, like nat ure herself, her luxuriance is somewhat slatternly, her exuberance has burst its stays. Here and there our' manners, our conventions, trim a hedge or two; but everywhere the forests, and even at our feet, the weeds, grow wild. Fifth Avenue, and its short pur lieus, is the home Of society; but elsewhere in the island of Manhattan humanity lives, unkempt, full Of sap - that great humanity which has made Mrs. Gower, and which she SO studiously avoids. For She lives in society; and perhaps has never thought that it is on humanity she lives. Let us walk from her great house down the side street in search Of it. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.