Classicly Books
The children and the pictures
Pamela GreyAll this time Clare had been looking at the lady, and was now quite sure she didn’t like her. The wave of fear she had first experienced had receded, and she had only an overmastering inclination to b..
Youth, Volume 1, Number 5, July 1902
H. L. CogginsYouth, Volume 1, Number 5, July 1902: An Illustrated Monthly Journal for Boys & Girls.Harold and I could subscribe to this opinion very heartily, for it was not more than a week since that dangero..
Dutch Etchers of the Seventeenth Century
Laurence BinyonOnly the independent masters, therefore, are exhibited here; and from these groups of etchers several of the greatest names in Dutch art are absent. Frans Hals, Jan Steen, Vermeer of Delft, Hobbema, D..
Watson's Jeffersonian Magazine, (Vol. III, No. 1), January, 1909
Thos. E. WatsonThose who take the least pains to ascertain the facts as to Mr. Lincoln’s story telling habits soon convince themselves that nothing said upon the subject could well be an exaggeration. In his day, th..
A happy New Year, and other verses
C. E. de la Poer BeresfordA happy New Year, and other verses, by C. E. de la Poer Beresford.A Happy New YearCradle SongQueen Tamara’s CastleUlster’s PrayerDark DonegalHy-BrasailBálor of the Great BlowsThe Garden..
I don't know, do you?
Marilla M. RickerRalph Washburn Chainey is only forty-two, and as great an example of thrift as Ben Franklin was. Very early in life he acquired the habit of thrift—which is the basis of all virtues. He learned early ..
Nordenholt's Million
J. J. ConningtonSlowly the luminous sphere crossed the edge of the Park, dipping suddenly as though the iron railings had attracted it; and now it was almost opposite our window. For a moment its impetus seemed to ca..
The Safety First Club and the Flood
William Theophilus NicholsThe Safety First Club and the Flood finds this group of boys, and especially its leader, Sam, worried, beset and tried by problems new to them, perplexing, baffling; not very grave problems, at first ..