Classicly Collection of Books

We're Off to Mars!

Joe Gibson

Finally, Joe opened the package. He merely inserted his thumb into a conspicuous slot at the corner and pushed it around the top edges. The silver-gray material parted easily and the lid came off the ..

Discipline in School and Cloister

Jacobus X

Quintilian wished to abolish flogging, and the only fault about his reasons was that they were addressed to barbarians who were not yet ready to understand. ‘I would like scholars not to be beaten: fi..

Mediæval Military Architecture in England, Volume 2 (of 2)

George Thomas Clark

Although the Western or Shakespeare’s Cliff is part of a larger range, the Castle Hill is better suited for defence. It is, in fact, an isolated knoll about 1,000 yards north and south, and 500 yards ..

Rebels and Reformers - Biographies for Young People

Arthur Ponsonby

There are many books about men of action—soldiers, sailors, and explorers—but it is not so easy to find any simple account of men who have used their minds and their pens, rather than the sword, in th..

The Fritz Strafers - A Story of the Great War

Percy F. Westerman

Nigel Farrar, otherwise Slogger, was a tall, broad-shouldered youth of sixteen. His nom-de-guerre was singularly appropriate, as indeed most nicknames bestowed by one's chums in a public school usuall..

The Ice Crop - How to Harvest, Store, Ship and Use Ice

Theron L. Hiles

The Export Trade reached its height about this time. Frederick Tudor, of Boston, Mass., who shipped the first cargo to the West Indies in 1806, and whose enterprise had carried8 his ships to all the p..

The Migration of North American Birds (1935)

Frederick C. Lincoln

For half a century the Biological Survey has been collecting data on the interesting and important phenomenon of the migration of North American birds. The field men of the Bureau have gathered inform..

Bob Taylor's Magazine, Vol. I, No. 1, April 1905

Robert L. Taylor

A sigh of deep regret came from the Southern heart when Missouri registered the decree that Cockrell, the soul of honor, the impersonation of truth and integrity, the soldier and the statesman, must c..