Classicly Books
Practical School Discipline - Applied Methods, Part 1
Ray Coppock BeeryThe Teachers’ Club is a coöperative organization from which we expect the most stimulating results—results which can be made much more effective by personal correspondence with its members. Your exper..
The English Secretary
Angel DayThe English Secretary; or, Methode of Writing Epistles and Letters (1599)With, a Declaration of Such Tropes, Figures, and Schemes, as Either Usually or for Ornament Sake Are Therein Required.Now becau..
The House of Adventure
Warwick DeepingA look of spiritualized intelligence sharpened Brent’s face. His eyes ceased to be dead and listless. Something stirred in him, a passion to escape, perhaps a hunger for the finer things that had pass..
Within the Precincts
Mrs. OliphantThe name of a Chevalier of St. Michael sounds very splendid to innocent and uninstructed ears. It is a title which stands alone in England at least. Poor Knights have been heard of both in flesh and b..
Graham's Magazine, Vol. XIX, No. 1, July 1841
George R. GrahamAll over this land there are spots like this, of bewildering beauty; where toil and rest, and wo and happiness, have struggled together for years. There are thousands, ay! tens of thousands, of humble..
Graham's Magazine, Vol. XIX, No. 2, August 1841
George R. GrahamIt must not be supposed that the youth was callous to his disgrace. He felt it acutely, and the more acutely because, as every good principle was not yet eradicated from his heart, he was conscious th..
Talks with Tolstoi
Aleksandr BorisovichMy first visit to the house of Leo Nikolaevich was on January 20th, 1896. I was not then twenty-one years old. I was almost a boy. I was taken to the Tolstois’ by a well-known Moscow lady singer who u..
The Forest Giant
Adrien Le CorbeauOne day the stream of water by which the seed was carried along sank suddenly—whirling down a funnel in the ground. Slowly the grey light of day grew less as the seed dived deeper and deeper, till in ..