Classicly Collection of Books

The British Campaign in France and Flanders 1915

Arthur Conan Doyle

The three years of war may be roughly divided into the year of defence, the year of equilibrium, and the year of attack. This volume concerns itself with the second, which in its very nature must be l..

The British Campaign in France and Flanders 1916

Arthur Conan Doyle

Time is a great toner down of superlatives, and the episodes which seem world-shaking in our day may, when looked upon by the placid eyes of historical philosophers in days to come, fit more easily in..

Young Folks Magazine, Vol. I, No. 2, April 1902

Herbert Leonard Coggins

Every little noise startled him. If Molly stepped upon a crackling branch, he threw a startled look from left to right, fearing that some enemy lurked in the thickets which bordered the road. It would..

Brief for the higher education of the negro

Kelly Miller

The first great need of the Negro is that the choice youth of the race should assimilate the principles of culture and hand them down to the masses below. This is the only gate-way through which a new..

Lexington

Sidney Howard

The play demands an almost continual musical accompaniment. This should be composed upon the foundation of period songs, particularly those which are indicated in the text. Also, the various speeches ..

The British Campaign in France and Flanders 1917

Arthur Conan Doyle

The Censorship has left me untrammelled in the matter of units, for which I am sufficiently grateful. The ruling, however, upon the question of names must be explained, lest it should seem that their ..

The British Campaign in France and Flanders—January to July 1918

Arthur Conan Doyle

The account of how the British Army, upon which incomparably the greater pressure fell, rose to the occasion and first slowed and then held the terrific flood is one of the most wonderful of military ..

The British Campaign in France and Flanders—July to November 1918

Arthur Conan Doyle

There were certain factors which even at the zenith of Germany's fortunes may have prepared a cool-headed critic for a swing of the scales, though the wisest and best informed could not have conceived..