Classicly Collection of Books

Mixed Pickles

Evelyn Raymond

Melville raised himself upon his pillows, Grandmother Capers screamed, and Content ran to the window. Outside stood a tiny dog-cart, drawn by a sturdy little pony, driven by a lad who could not have s..

Eminent literary and scientific men of Italy, Spain, and Portugal. Vol. 3 (of 3)

James Montgomery

Although this quotation has run to a great lengthy I cannot refrain from adding the ode to the Flower of Gnido. It is more fanciful and airy, more original, yet more classic. Mr. Wiffen's translation ..

Hold Back Tomorrow

Kris Neville

She looked at him, and his face was red with embarrassment. He avoided her eyes, and he was his former self, at least for a moment. The self she wanted to touch and hold onto in the face of a swirling..

John, A Love Story; vol. 2 of 2

Mrs. Oliphant

John was nothing loath to commit himself now to anything she asked of him; and as they strayed on under the dark rustling lime-trees, with nobody within sight or sound, and the darkness enclosing them..

The Mistake of Christopher Columbus

Jules Archer

Nothing more was heard of Herbert Fitzgrone after this tragedy. Presumably frightened that he might be held responsible for the editor's death, the scientist disappeared. Fortunately for posterity, ho..

Graham's Magazine, Vol. XIX, No. 6, December 1841

George R. Graham

The happy page, blushing, however, to find all eyes directed towards himself, trotted out a few paces in advance of the group, and removing the hood from the eyes of the noble bird, held the falcon on..

House Operator

S. M. Tenneshaw

The first three deals were in the nature of warmups, and Rafferty emerged from them twenty or thirty credits to the good. He felt the cards moving the right way; luck was with him tonight. He wondered..

Roster of the Rainbow division (Forty-Second)

Harold Stanley Johnson

The Rainbow Division was so christened by Secretary of War Baker when he assembled the official Forty-second because it represented organizations from twenty-six States of the Union, embracing a terri..