Classicly Collection of Books

Two Slatterns and a King - A Moral Interlude

Edna St. Vincent Millay

No amateur or professional use permitted of “Two Slatterns and a King” without written authorization first obtained from Stewart Kidd Company, 121 East Fifth Street, Cincinnati, O., to whom all applic..

Cinders

W. C. Tuttle

James Worthington Steele was a good railroad man; so he did not rave. He knew just how bad most of their rolling-stock was. But he must at least get a message through; so the conductor ran a wire from..

Creepin’ Tintypes

W. C. Tuttle

Waldemar starts to argue, but we both stands pat and he gives us the money. A hundred dollars is a lot of money to a man who expects to die the next day. There ain’t no rainy days in his future. He do..

Dirty Work for Doughgod

W. C. Tuttle

We hammers along for about two miles, when all to once we sees a cloud of dust ahead of us. Said cloud is sliding toward the grade down to the Wind River crossing, and we all sighs to think what that ..

Florida trails

Winthrop Packard

The hundreds had dwindled to almost a lone specimen before, just off Charleston, the pelicans came out to look us over. Not a duck did I see till the pelicans had approved us. Then we began to drive o..

Pictorial Beauty on the Screen

Victor Oscar Freeburg

If I look upon a motion picture as a kind of substitute for some stage play or novel, it seems to me a poor thing, only a substitute for something better; but if I look upon it as something real in it..

Søren Hjorth - Inventor of the Dynamo-electric Principle

Sigurd Smith

Søren Hjorth was born on the 13th of October, 1801. He spent his childhood at Vesterbygaard, an estate rented by his father, Jens Hjorth, in Jordløse Parish, north of Tissø. His mother’s maiden name w..

The Continent of the Future - Africa and Its Wonderful Development

The expedition under Gallieni is stated to have reached Saint Louis from Timbuctoo, having completed a survey for a railroad between those points, which is pronounced to be entirely feasible. He met w..