Classicly Collection of Books

On Picket Duty, and Other Tales

Louisa May Alcott

Thorn was a Massachusetts volunteer; a man who seemed too early old, too early embittered by some cross, for though grim of countenance, rough of speech, cold of manner, a keen observer would have soo..

Our Mr. Wrenn - The Romantic Adventures of a Gentle Man

Sinclair Lewis

The ticket-taker of the Nickelorion Moving-Picture Show is a public personage, who stands out on Fourteenth Street, New York, wearing a gorgeous light-blue coat of numerous brass buttons. He nods to a..

The Story of Germ Life

H. W. Conn

Since the first edition of this book was published the popular idea of bacteria to which attention was drawn in the original preface has undergone considerable modification. Experimental medicine has ..

Justice in the By-Ways, a Tale of Life

F. Colburn Adams

PREFACES, like long sermons to fashionable congregations, are distasteful to most readers, and in no very high favor with us. A deep interest in the welfare of South Carolina, and the high esteem in w..

Laicus; Or, the Experiences of a Layman in a Country Parish

Lyman Abbott

This book was not made; it has grown. When three years ago I left the pulpit to engage in literary work and took my seat among the laity in the pews, I found that many ecclesiastical and religious sub..

Leah Mordecai - A Novel

Belle K. Abbott

The two girls stepped out into the slippery street, and turned their faces homeward. "I am glad, Lizzie," continued Bertha, as they turned corner after corner, "that our paths run together so far; hav..

The Duke's Prize

Maturin Murray Ballou

THE DUKE'S PRIZE.A Story Of Art And Heart In FlorenceBy Lieutenant Maturin Murray BallouTHE scenes of the following story are laid in Italy, that land of the sun. They are designed to impress a goodly..

The Heart's Secret

Maturin Murray Ballou

THE locale of the following story is that gem of the American Archipelago; the Island of Cuba, whose lone star, now merged in the sea, is destined yet to sparkle in liberty's hemisphere, and radiate t..