Classicly Books
The Heart's Highway - A Romance of Virginia in the Seventeenth Century
Mary Eleanor Wilkins FreemanIn 1682, when I was thirty years of age and Mistress Mary Cavendish just turned of eighteen, she and I together one Sabbath morning in the month of April were riding to meeting in Jamestown. We were a..
The Story of the Soil
Cyril G. HopkinsTruth is better than fiction; and this true story of the soil is written in co-operation with the Press of America and in competition with popular fiction. The scenes described exist; the references g..
Born in Exile
George GissingThe summer day in 1874 which closed the annual session of Whitelaw College was marked by a special ceremony, preceding the wonted distribution of academic rewards. At eleven in the morning (just as a ..
Familiar Letters of Chemistry
Justus LiebigThe Letters contained in this little Volume embrace some of the most important points of the science of Chemistry, in their application to Natural Philosophy, Physiology, Agriculture, and Commerce. So..
The Farm That Won't Wear Out
Cyril G. HopkinsIT IS an old saying that "any fool can farm," and this was almost the truth when farming consisted chiefly in reducing the fertility of new, rich land secured at practically no cost from a generous Go..
Aaron's Rod
D. H. LawrenceAaron's Rod is a picaresque novel by D. H. Lawrence, started in 1918 and published in 1922. Aaron Sisson, a union official in the coal mines of the English Midlands, is trapped in a stale marriage. He..
On Conducting (Ueber das Dirigiren) - A Treatise on Style in the Execution of Classical Music
Richard WagnerWagner's Ueber das Dirigiren was published simultaneously in the "Neue Zeitschrift fur Musik" and the "New-Yorker Musik-zeitung," 1869. It was immediately issued in book form, Leipzig, 1869, and is no..
The Fight for the Republic in China
B.L. Putnam WealeThis volume tells everything that the student or the casual reader needs to know about the Chinese Question. It is sufficiently exhaustive to show very clearly the new forces at work, and to bring som..