Classicly Collection of Books

A Twentieth Century Idealist

Henry Pettit

Paul 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 Ingraham

The 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. Reed

The 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 Paris

The 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 Balck

The 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 ..

The Goddess - A Demon

Richard Marsh

A vague wonder passed through my mind as to whether her object might not be felony. She had left the window open—I could feel the cool night-air—and stood inside it, as if listening. Was she endeavour..

The Tournament—Its Periods and Phases

R. Coltman Clephan

The Tournament, as practised in Germany and towards the close of the sixteenth century in England, France and Italy, must have been a rather dull performance, as the minute regulations and the cumbers..

A West Point Treasure

Frederick Garrison

The Parson was just the same old parson he was the day he first struck West Point. Frequent hazings had not robbed him of his quiet and classic dignity; and still more frequent battles with “the enemy..