Classicly Collection of Books

The Life and Sufferings of Leonard Black

Leonard Black

In putting this little volume before the public, it is well, perhaps, that I should speak of my motive. Born and reared in slavery, I was, of course, deprived of education; and believing that I can be..

Wind in Her Hair

Kris Neville

Johnny Nine did not answer immediately. He sat motionless, trying to make out the bulkhead that marked the other side of the Ship. But their feeble light could not penetrate so much darkness. It almos..

Young Folks Magazine, Vol. I, No. 1, March 1902

Herbert Leonard Coggins

The colonel beckoned him nearer and whispered an inaudible order in the man’s ear. There was no change of expression upon the servant’s countenance, and the command might have been welcome or distaste..

An Apache Campaign in the Sierra Madre

John Gregory Bourke

The recent outbreak of a fraction of the Chiricahua Apaches, and the frightful atrocities which have marked their trail through Arizona, Sonora, New Mexico, and Chihuahua, has attracted renewed attent..

English Folk-Song and Dance

Frank Kidson

The word “folk-song” is so elastic in definition that it has been freely used to indicate types of song and melody that greatly differ from each other. The word conveys a different signification to di..

Phrenology Examined

P. Flourens

I propose, in this work, to examine phrenology as it appears in the writings of Gall, of Spurzheim, and of Broussais. My wish is to be brief. There is, however, one great secret in the art of being br..

Sir Isumbras at the Ford

D. K. Broster

Anne-Hilarion was quite aware, in a general way, of his father's occupations. In fact, as he lay now in his bed, looking through the curtains at the wardrobe doors, he was meditating on the important ..

The British Campaign in France and Flanders 1914

Arthur Conan Doyle

From the first days of the war I have devoted much of my time to the accumulation of evidence from first-hand sources as to the various happenings of these great days. I have built up my narrative fro..