Biography Books
Augustus - The Life and Times of the Founder of the Roman Empire
E. S. ShuckburghAugustus has been much less attractive to biographers than Iulius; perhaps because the soldier is more interesting than the statesman; perhaps because the note of genius conspicuous in the Uncle was w..
The Truth About an Author
Arnold BennettSometime in the last century I was for several years one of the most regular contributors to "The Academy," under the editorship of Mr. Lewis Hind and the ownership of Mr. Morgan Richards. Mr. An..
A Life Unveiled, by a Child of the Drumlins
AnonymousI fancy that this “Child of the Drumlins” did not know she was living amid drumlins when she passed her youth there. She knew them only as the long, smooth, loaf-shaped hills that were scattered over ..
Great leaders - Historic portraits from the great historians
George T. FerrisEvery one perusing the pages of the historians must have been impressed with the graphic and singularly penetrative character of many of the sketches of the distinguished persons whose doings form the..
The Autobiography of Upton Sinclair
Upton SinclairAll through my seventy-one years of writing life—I started at thirteen—I have had from my readers suggestions that I should tell my own story. I put myself in the position of a veteran of many campaig..
Captain Bill McDonald
Albert Bigelow PaineCaptain Bill McDonald is a name that in Texas and the districts lying adjacent thereto makes the pulse of a good citizen, and the feet of an outlaw, move quicker. It is the story of this man that..
Hilaire Belloc - No Alienated Man
Frederick WilhelmsenIf Belloc is almost completely incomprehensible to the post-war intellectual (even the post-war Catholic intellectual), the lack of understanding can be traced to the amazing personal integration of t..
History of the Cape Mounted Riflemen
Richard CannonBiographical memoirs of the Colonels and other distinguished Officers, will be introduced in the Records of their respective Regiments, and the Honorary Distinctions which have, from time to time, bee..