Classicly Collection of Books

The Adventures of Mr. Verdant Green

Cuthbert Bede

IF you will refer to the unpublished volume of Burke's Landed Gentry, and turn to letter G, article "GREEN," you will see that the Verdant Greens are a family of some respectability and of considerabl..

The Landlord at Lion's Head

William Dean Howells

In those dim recesses of the consciousness where things have their beginning, if ever things have a beginning, I suppose the origin of this novel may be traced to a fact of a fortnight's sojourn on th..

Vignettes Of San Francisco

Almira Bailey

In the same way that the poets have loved Rome and made their pilgrimages there—as good Moslems travel toward Mecca, so there are some of us who have come to San Francisco. Then when we arrive and fin..

The Vigilance Committee of 1856

James O'Meara

Many accounts of the Vigilance Committee of San Francisco have been published, but all of them, so far as I have seen, were from the pen of members of that organization, or else from persons who favor..

San Francisco During the Eventful Days of April 1906

James B. Stetson

As the earthquake and the great fire in San Francisco in the year 1906 were events of such unusual interest, and realizing how faulty is man's memory after time passes, I have here jotted down a few i..

Starr King in California

William Day Simonds

This book is the result of the author's strong desire to know the truth relative to a critical period in the history of California, and a further strong desire to deal justly by the memory of a man re..

A Tramp Through the Bret Harte Country

T. D. Beasley

In California's imaginary Hall of Fame, Bret Harte must be accorded a prominent, if not first place. His short stories and dialect poems published fifty years ago made California well known the world ..

California Romantic and Resourceful

John Francis Davis

California Romantic and Resourceful, A plea for the Collection, Preservation and Diffusion of Information Relating to Pacific Coast History.This plea is an arrow shot into the air. It is the result of..