Classicly Collection of Books

Valladolid, Oviedo, Segovia, Zamora, Avila & Zaragoza

Albert F. Calvert

The six cities of Spain which form the subject of the following pages are little known to English travellers. Yet no one who would understand the country can afford to pass them by. Not only are they ..

History of the Jews in America

Peter Wiernik

There were less than ten thousand Jews in the New World three centuries after its discovery, and about two-thirds of them lived in the West Indies and in Surinam or Dutch Guiana in South America. On t..

Negro Journalism

George W. Gore

Negro Journalism: An Essay on the History and Present Conditions of the Negro Press. The main purpose of this essay is to show the various stages of development through which the Negro press has ..

New York - The Nation's Metropolis

Peter Marcus

Peter Marcus is a painter not an architect, but he is also a designer experienced in the goldsmith’s craft and there is evident in these charcoal studies a pleasure in the delineation of the tracery o..

Sir Henry Irving—A Record of Over Twenty Years at the Lyceum

Percy Fitzgerald

There is a spectacle often witnessed in the manufacturing counties, when we may be standing waiting in one of the great stations, which leaves a melancholy impression. A huge theatrical train containi..

The children and the pictures

Pamela Grey

All 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. Coggins

Youth, 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 Binyon

Only 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..