Non-fiction Books

Salve Venetia, gleanings from Venetian history Vol-II

F. Marion Crawford

The young nobles were brought up to feel that they and their time belonged exclusively to the State, and when they grew older it was a point of honour with them not to be absent from any meeting of th..

A History of Epidemic Pestilences

Edward Bascome

The Author has endeavoured to place in fair review the various opinions of the most eminent historians (professional and otherwise), and would impress on his readers, that on a subject embracing so wi..

Aspects of Nature, in Different Lands and Different Climates Vol 1 of 2

Alexander von Humboldt

The twofold aim of the present work (a carefully prepared and executed attempt to enhance the enjoyment of Nature by animated description, and at the same time to increase in proportion to the state o..

The Powder of Sympathy

Christopher Morley

I have christened these soliloquies after dear old Sir Kenelm Digby’s famous nostrum, the Powder of Sympathy. But in spite of its amiable name and properties that powder was not a talcum. Its basis wa..

Constantino Brumidi, Michelangelo of the United States Capitol

Myrtle Cheney Murdock

ENSHRINED in the domed Rotunda of the United States Capitol, as in the Roman Pantheon from which it is descended, are the noblest hopes of a mighty Nation. The monumental mural is usually better ..

The Story of the House

Orman Wesley Ketcham

The Story of the House: Being Some Suggestions in Brickwork from the Catalogue of O. W. Ketcham. The brick forms shown in Part Two are only suggestive of the various shapes in use, as the require..

The Book of History (Vol. 1 of 18)

Various Authors

It is a book of history by writers and makers of history; it is a book of action by men of action; it is a book, that is, by men who know intimately the real life of the world. When Professor Ratzel w..

Pueblo pottery making

Carl E. Guthe

The choice of Pecos for investigation by Phillips Academy was due to the above considerations. The ruin was a large one, was occupied at the time of the Discovery and was not abandoned until 1838. A s..