Classicly Collection of Books

A Son of the Ages

Stanley Waterloo

A waste of waters heaved sullenly beneath a dismal canopy. Thin, slimy masses floated here and there about the shallows of a little cove or clung to its sodden beach. The warm waters teemed with ..

Bantu Folk Lore

Matthew L. Hewat

The Bantu race comprises one great family extending over all Central and South Africa, South of a line drawn roughly from the Kamerun to the Pokomo River, but excluding the South West corner—Great Nam..

Famous Colonial Houses

Paul M. Hollister

In the face of mutterings of anarchy—that Russian importation which is so much less satisfactory than the caviar—there is reassurance in these sturdy calm old mansions which are the monuments of the s..

The Gold Brick

Brand Whitlock

AS HOLMAN loitered along the pavement that June morning, glad once more to be back in Springfield after so many years, he recalled with a sigh another morning, far gone, when first he had come up to t..

The Residuary Legatee

Frederic Jesup Stimson

May’s valet solved that difficulty by shouldering the leather receptacle and carrying it up himself. The room was large, airy, and neatly kept. A straw matting was on the floor, covered here and there..

A Critical Analysis of Patriotism As an Ethical Concept

Clarence Reidenbach

One of the chief reasons for the radical disagreement about the morality of patriotism is that there are widely different assumptions as to its nature. It is a sentiment of manifold varieties, and the..

The Trail of Death

H. Bedford-Jones

Durant nodded. This request complicated the situation a bit. Beyond keeping Larson from being murdered, he had previously had little interest in the matter. Finding the man’s actual status, he had bee..

Cousin Lucy

Jacob Abbott

Lucy found that she could not untie the knot. Then she looked about to find her scissors, to cut it; for she had a pair of scissors, which her mother had bought for her, some time before; but,then, as..