Classicly Collection of Books

Good hunting; in pursuit of big game in the West

Theodore Roosevelt

This series of articles upon big-game hunting was written for Harper’s Round Table, and published therein in 1897. The picture of ranch life which forms the closing chapter appeared in Harper’s Round ..

Idealia, a Utopian Dream

H. Alfarata Chapman Thompson

The writer in sending out this little book asks that its readers will try to bear in mind that while the whole idea may be more or less ideal, it is hoped that here and there a thought may be culled w..

Kak, the Copper Eskimo

Violet Irwin

One morning Kak wakened early and lay staring up at the snow ceiling. It looked mysteriously large and gloomed, for Guninana was saving oil and only a small light flamed in one corner of the large lam..

The History of the Manners and Customs of Ancient Greece, Volume 2 (of 3)

James Augustus St. John

The marriage of brothers with their own sisters was, in later ages, considered illegal; not so with respect to half sisters by the fathers’s side, whom no law forbade men to marry. Still the recorded ..

The Tuberculosis Nurse

Ellen N. La Motte

During eight successive years the writer has been engaged in special tuberculosis work, first as field nurse of the Visiting Nurse Association of Baltimore, later as organizer and director of the Tube..

The Useful Arts Employed in the Construction of Dwelling Houses

Anonymous

The building of houses has in all ages formed part of the employment of man as he advanced from a state of mere barbarism to one of comparative civilization. In devoting this little volume, therefore,..

Youth and Life

Randolph Silliman Bourne

As the world breaks in on a boy with its crashing thunder, he has a feeling of expansion, of sudden wisdom and sudden care. The atoms of things seem to be disintegrating around him. Then come the tear..

All for Love

Mrs. Alex. McVeigh Miller

She flung herself down on the kitchen lounge for her usual evening nap after tea, and her daughter, still laughing at the ridiculous suit of her aged wooer, hastened outdoors to the front gate to watc..