Classicly Collection of Books

The Story of Chalmers of New Guinea

Janet Harvey Kelman

AMES CHALMERS was born sixty-five years ago at a little town in the West Highlands of Scotland. He was the son of a stonemason, but his home was close to the sea, and he was more eager to sail than to..

Hilda's Home: A Story of Woman's Emancipation

Rosa Graul

Prominent among the criticisms made upon the economic ideal herein presented is the absence of all reference to the “Labor Exchange,” and the apparent acquiescence by the co-operators in the old monop..

No More Parades

Ford Madox Ford

The Canadian sergeant-major was worried about a pig-skin leather pocket-book. He had bought it at the ordnance depot in the town. He imagined himself bringing it out on parade, to read out some return..

Gleanings from Maeterlinck

Maurice Maeterlinck

In The Blue Bird we are shown that a man cannot die so long as he dwells in the memory of those who loved him. In his latest work Maeterlinck gives to the dead an objective existence. In part each gen..

The Treasure Trail

Frank Lillie Pollock

Across an unfenced strip of pasture Elliott’s eye fell upon the Salt Lake spur of the Union Pacific tracks, where a mile of rails is used for the storage of empty freight-cars. He pulled his horse rou..

Twenty Years' Residence among the People of Turkey

Fanny Janet Sandison Blunt

The book has been divided into four parts. In the first, the general characteristics of the various races of Turkey are sketched. Very little is said about their history, for it is not the history but..

Unfinished Rainbows, and Other Essays

George Wood Anderson

That is a sweeping promise that is literally fulfilled in nature. All clouds carry rainbows. Most of them are never seen by us because we lack the necessary keenness of vision, or the proper point of ..

An Illustrated Dictionary of Words used in Art and Archaeology

John W. Mollett

The Greek and Roman Antiquities, which are the principal part of M. Bosc’s work, have been in this volume reduced to the smallest possible compass: the Dictionaries of Dr. Smith and Rich must be refer..