Classicly Books
Skid Row Pilot
Randall GarrettStiffly he rolled over. The chilling winds of Mars came roaring down to bite at him. He was lying in the gutter outside the Space Service office, sprawled out with one hand lying casually along the si..
The Origin of the Mound Builders
Alfred Oscar CoffinThe growth of civilization has always been along the courses of great rivers—the Nile, Euphrates, Ganges, Hoangho, Danube, the Mississippi and Ohio. The Mound-builders were an agricultural people, for..
Biblical Revision, its duties and conditions
Henry AlfordNow we in this land possess a version of the Holy Scriptures which may challenge comparison for faithfulness, for simplicity, and for majesty, with any that the world has ever seen. Perhaps its ..
Christian Literature
John StoughtonThe Evangelist here speaks of books—of the possibility of writing an immense number of them on one subject; and thus he calls to our mind the saying of the wise man, that “of making many books there i..
Roman Public Life
A. H. J. GreenidgeIt is not only that classic traditions were forgotten, that, as Gibbon says, “the purity of the Latin language was debased by adopting, in the intercourse of pride and flattery, a profusion of epithet..
Task of Tau
J. Harvey HaggardTau had learned the secrets of extracting radiant energy from the atom, had become adept in applying the forces to the mechanisms that propelled the space-ship and supplied motivation for his own meta..
The Book of Light in the Hand of Love
Charles J. VaughanThis Society is, we frankly say, a witness to the primary importance of the individual life. It is God’s order. Out of the individual—not the other way—grows the community. It was so..
The Three Choirs
Richard KingThe Three Choirs: A Handbook to the Cathedrals of Gloucester, Hereford, and Worcester A Complete Description of the Buildings, a History of Each Diocese and Biographical Notices of the Bishops. T..