Classicly Collection of Books

Gloria at Boarding School

Lilian Garis

Gloria was secretly happy to be sponsored by the impressive Trixy. As a matter of fact, no one could doubt the latter’s standing. She was tall, a mellow blonde, the type softened with a tawny brown gl..

A History of Sculpture

Ernest Henry Short

This general scheme has entailed several consequences. I am conscious that I have dealt curtly with pre-Hellenic art—particularly with that of the Mycenæan age. My reason is that ivory work and goldsm..

Chance, Love, and Logic - Philosophical Essays

Charles S. Peirce

In a subject which bristles with suggestions and difficulties the temptation to add notes of explanation or dissent is almost insuperable. But as such notes might easily have doubled the size of this ..

The Hunt Pack

Samuel Alexander White

The man and the woman held their heads over the heat. The icy tusks thawed and fell to sizzle and steam upon the glowing stove-top. The two shoved back the parka hoods and nodded genially to their wel..

A Tract on Monetary Reform

John Maynard Keynes

Nowhere do conservative notions consider themselves more in place than in currency; yet nowhere is the need of innovation more urgent. One is often warned that a scientific treatment of currency quest..

Borgia - A Period Play

An apartment of the Vatican: at the further end the door of the Treasury by which the Lord Cardinal Casanova is seated. The Lord Alexander VI. and an Envoy from Naples. The Pope is seated; from time t..

Double Identity

Henry Farrell

The hallways of the Grande Apartments were carpeted as thickly as the living quarters. It was the only place in town where you could sneak up on someone at a dead trot. Fleetwood plushed along in the ..

MASSASOIT'S TOWN

Virginia Baker

Massasoit was familiar with the appearance of white men before the arrival of the Pilgrims at Plymouth. In 1619, Captain Thomas Dermer, an Englishman, visited the Massachusetts coast and held an inter..