Non-fiction Books

Historical Record of the Thirty-fourth, or the Cumberland Regiment of Foot

Richard Cannon

The character and credit of the British Army must chiefly depend upon the zeal and ardour by which all who enter into its service are animated, and consequently it is of the highest importance that an..

The American National Red Cross Bulletin, Vol. I, No. 2, April, 1906

The American National Red Cross

The second Quarterly Bulletin of the American National Red Cross contains an account of the work of raising funds for the benefit of the Japanese famine sufferers. The April Quarterly Bulletin having ..

My Home in the Alps

Alice Le Blond

In this little volume, much of the matter in which first appeared in the St. Moritz Post, or, as it is now called, the Alpine Post. It thus seems to me that a small book, dealing with some of the vari..

Penmanship - Teaching and Supervision

Leta Severance Hiles

Reading, writing, and arithmetic have for long been looked upon as the fundamentals in education. And in very truth they are. No small part of this entire problem, especially when applied to grade pup..

The Tunnel Under the Channel

Thomas Whiteside

In the social history of England, the English Channel, that proud sea passage some three hundred and fifty miles long, has separated that country from the Continent as by a great gulf or a bottomless ..

Tiberius the Tyrant

J. C. Tarver

The political genius of a nation is shown by nothing so much as the success with which it supplements the deficiencies of its formal constitution by informal but recognized agencies. Rome was provided..

Sun Tzŭ on the Art of War - The Oldest Military Treatise in the World

Lionel Giles

From blemishes of this nature, at least, I believe that the present translation is free. It was not undertaken out of any inflated estimate of my own powers; but I could not help feeling that Sun Tzŭ ..

A Text-Book of Horseshoeing, for Horseshoers and Veterinarians

Anton Lungwitz

Horseshoeing is an industry which requires, in equal degree, knowledge and skill. Horseshoeing, though apparently simple, involves many difficulties, owing to the fact that the hoof is not an unchangi..