Language Books
Capitals
Frederick W. HamiltonCapitals, a Primer of Information about Capitalization with some Practical Typographic Hints as to the Use of Capitals written by Frederick William Hamilton, an American Universalist businessman and t..
A History of English Literature
Robert Huntington FletcherThis book aims to provide a general manual of English Literature for students in colleges and universities and others beyond the high-school age. The first purposes of every such book must be to outli..
Austral English
Edward Ellis MorrisAustral English, is a a dictionary of Australasian words, phrases and usages with those aboriginal-Australian and Maori words which have become incorporated in the language, and the commoner scientifi..
Character Sketches of Romance, Fiction and the Drama, Vol. 1 (of 4)
Cobham BrewerCharacter Sketches of Romance, Fiction and the Drama, Vol 1, by The Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. Ebenezer Cobham Brewer, was the author of A Guide to the Scientific Knowledge of Things Familiar, Brewe..
The Witch of Atlas
Percy Bysshe ShelleyThe Witch of Atlas is an English Poem written Percy Bysshe Shelley, one of the major English Romantic poets, who is regarded by some as among the finest lyric and philosophical poets in the English la..
The Annals of the Cakchiquels
Francisco Hernández Arana XajiláBoth for its historical and linguistic merits, the document which is presented in this volume is one of the most important in aboriginal American Literature. Written by a native who had grown to adult..
An apology for the study of northern antiquities
Elizabeth ElstobCharles Peake's Introduction:The answerers who rushed into print in 1712 against Swift’s Proposal for Correcting, Improving and Ascertaining the English Tongue were so obviously moved by the spirit of..
On The Art of Reading
Arthur Quiller-CouchThe following twelve lectures have this much in common with a previous twelve published in 1916 under the title "On the Art of Writing"—they form no compact treatise but present their central idea as ..