Classicly Books
The Kashf al-mahjúb - The oldest Persian treatise on Súfiism
HujviriThe Kashf al-Maḥjúb, which belongs to the later years of the author’s life, and, partly at any rate, to the period of his residence in Lahore, was written in reply to certain questions addressed to hi..
The Spanish Influenza Pandemic of 1918
Oscar Jewell HarveyThe Spanish Influenza Pandemic of 1918. An Account of Its Ravages in Luzerne County, Pennsylvania, and the Efforts Made to Combat and Subdue It. History records many instances of epidemics, famin..
Betsy Baker!
John Maddison MortonYou can’t deny it. Look at the Railroads—oblige me by looking at the Railroads, with their gigantic viaducts, their stupendous aqueducts—look at the Electric Telegraph over the Straits of Menai—look a..
H. G. Hawker, airman - his life and work
Muriel HawkerHawker, thirty years ago, was an impossibility, but when he died he was the idealised sportsman of the youth of the country, and it was rightly so. Modest in triumph, hard-working, a tremendous “stick..
Spanish Painting
Aureliano de Beruete y MoretSpain is familiarly spoken of as a country of distinctive character, and is so not only because of its geographical situation, which has kept it somewhat apart from frequented routes, but because it a..
The Oversight
Miles J. BreuerThe Farmers and Indians and other dispossessed citizens opened fire on the massed troops with deadly effect. Soldiers fell by the hundreds; huge gaps appeared in the ranks; whole companies were wiped ..
The Ultimate Image
P. Schuyler MillerDampier stiffened. The forked beard was thrust stiffly forward and the thin shoulders squared in spite of Bill's numbing grip. "I am no murderer!" he hissed. "Wilhelm Nebel is the enemy of my country ..
Tickets to Paradise
D. L. JamesRog Tanlu nodded. "Of course I didn't call it that. But I happened to overhear a conversation between you two, with the audio-visiscope, some days ago, and thereby learned the name you have for it. A ..