Peeps at People

"Peeps at People" is a collection of 28 short stories taking up different sides of human life. The essays were originally published and were a great success in The Bookman and the New York Evening Post, for which Robert Cortes Holliday, the author, worked as a columnist. The stories were inspired by the usual scenes of life in New York at the beginning of the twentieth century: a conversation overheard at the post office or a visit to the barbershop. They are a treasury of conventional wisdom rendered with a good portion of light humor.