Classicly Collection of Books

The Galleries of the Exposition

Eugen Neuhaus

The artistic appeals of the Panama-Pacific International Exposition through architecture and the allied decorative arts are so engrossing that one yields to the call of the independent Fine Arts only ..

The Sea-Witch

Maturin Murray Ballou

LET the reader peruse the following story with the same spirit in which it was written, and not conceive that it is either a pro-slavery or anti-slavery tale. The "peculiar institution" which is herei..

Seven Wives and Seven Prisons

L. A. Abbott

SOME one has said that if any man would faithfully write his autobiography, giving truly his own history and experiences, the ills and joys, the haps and mishaps that had fallen to his lot, he could n..

The Story of the Pony Express

Glenn D. Bradley

This little volume has but one purpose--to give an authentic, useful, and readable account of the Pony Express. This wonderful enterprise played an important part in history, and demonstrated what Ame..

Town and Country, or, Life at Home and Abroad

John S. Adams

Henry Lang had been in years past a man well-to-do in the world; he was once a merchant respected for his strict integrity and punctuality in business affairs; but by a false step, a making haste to b..

Checkmates for Four Pieces

William Brett Fishburne

Checkmates for Four Pieces written by William Brett Fishburne...

Lady Hester; Or, Ursula's Narrative

Charlotte M. Yonge

The old times at Trevorsham seem to me so remote, that I can hardly believe that we are the same who were so happy then. Nay, Jaquetta laughs, and declares that it is not possible to be happier than w..

Light, Life, and Love - Selections from the German Mystics of the Middle Ages

William Ralph Inge

TO most English readers the "Imitation of Christ" is the representative of mediaeval German mysticism. In reality, however, this beautiful little treatise belongs to a period when that movement had ne..