Classicly Collection of Books

Watson's Jeffersonian Magazine, (Vol. III, No. 1), January, 1909

Thos. E. Watson

Those 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 Beresford

A 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. Ricker

Ralph 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. Connington

Slowly 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 Nichols

The 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 ..

A Tale of Two Monkeys, and other stories

Anonymous

There is a story, in a beautiful book called The Queens of England, about a little girl who saved her father’s life. It happened a long time ago, when a woman named Mary was queen. Lord Preston, the f..

Our Little Cuban Cousin

Mary Hazelton Blanchard Wade

Largest of all the fair West Indian Islands which lie in our open doorway is Cuba. The great south doorway to the United States and all North America, you know, is the Gulf of Mexico.But recently, as ..

Our Little Swedish Cousin

Claire M. Coburn

The snow and glaciers on the extreme north cut off this long tongue of land, so that it is as separate from the rest of Europe as an island. In the olden days, almost every Swede tilled the soil and l..