Classicly Books
Riches and Poverty
L. G. Chiozza MoneyWhile since 1900 nominal or money wages have been at a standstill, the cost of living has continued to rise. The retail cost of food in London rose 9 per cent. in 1900-1908. Therefore British real or ..
A Japanese Blossom
Onoto WatannaThe screaming child was alternately hugged and petted and fanned, until finally, his fat little legs kicking out in every direction, he was carried from the room by Gozo. Out in the garden, the big br..
A monograph on sleep and dream - their physiology and psychology
Edward W. CoxIn dealing with a subject so old and yet so new, I can do little more than suggest explanations of phenomena. I do not venture to assert them. Those suggestions are submitted to the reader to induce h..
A Twentieth Century Idealist
Henry PettitPaul was not as a general thing given to bothering about hidden meanings. His diving below the surface had been chiefly as a swimmer, from early boyhood until more recent experience. He possessed a ke..
Buffalo Bill's Weird Warning
Prentiss IngrahamThe five men were “salting” the worthless mine; that is, they had loaded the shotgun-shells with fine gold, and were blowing the gold into the breast of the level. When the intended victim came to tak..
Cadet Life at West Point
Hugh T. ReedThe old manuscript wouldn’t do, so I edited what I had written, re-wrote some of the pages, added a few lines here and there, and finally concluded to publish it without the least expectation that it ..
Medical Jurisprudence, Volume 3 (of 3)
John Ayrton ParisThe practitioner, says Orfila, will not be able to form a correct judgment in cases of this kind, if he neglect to pay attention, first, to the state of the stomach of the different persons poisoned; ..
Tactics, Volume 1 (of 2). Introduction and Formal Tactics of Infantry
William BalckThe treatment of the subject matter has remained the same throughout; it represents, as in the first edition, the principle that tactical lessons must be deduced from human nature, from the effect of ..