Classicly Collection of Books

Anthology of Magazine Verse for 1914

William Stanley Braithwaite

The great secret of life is to discover by a process of related effects, this common reality of experience. Most of mankind grope blindly in the dark, and miss it, and by a kind of frenzied and pitiab..

Base-ball Ballads

Grantland Rice

A collection of poems written by Grantland Rice:The Song of the Base HitOn the Road to Rooters’ Row“Till the Last Man Is Out”The BushersThe Climax of Fan JoySongs of Swat—“You Uster Bat .300”The ..

Old Greek Education

J. P. Mahaffy

There have been only two earlier nations and one later which could compete with the Greeks in their treatment of this perpetual problem in human progress. We have first the Egyptian nation, which by i..

The Boston cooking-school cook book

Fannie Merritt Farmer

Food is necessary for growth, repair, and energy; therefore the elements composing the body must be found in the food. The thirteen elements named are formed into chemical compounds by the vegetable a..

The Old Ones

Betsy Curtis

The older doctor looked oddly at the younger. "There must be something wrong in Block Nineteen. We'll call a meeting of staff. You can't cover up this sort of thing, Doctor. Everybody probably knows i..

Venus Hate

John McGreevey

The Earth colonies on Venus, Mars and the satellites of Jupiter are filled with men like Yancey Ritter. They're men who seem to be born with a weight of bitterness on their backs. They look at the Uni..

Wit, Humor, and Shakspeare - Twelve Essays

John Weiss

When a great freshet takes possession of a country, and evicts the tenants of every hole, thicket, and burrow, there is an indiscriminate stampede of the animals for the driest and safest places: hare..

It's Raining Frogs!

Stephen Marlowe

The Bikini suit was not in style this year, but Myra wore it because she knew she looked good in it. George watched her run toward him and watched her shake her dark hair loose after she removed the b..