Classicly Books
Ploughshare and Pruning-Hook - Ten Lectures on Social Subjects
Laurence HousmanThese papers, originally given as lectures, make no pretence to the solution of the social or political problems with which they are concerned. Whether these lectures were primarily intended for ..
Queen of the Dawn - A Love Tale of Old Egypt
H. Rider HaggardThe Shepherd people too, like the Egyptians of the South, were weary of war and would not fight again. Therefore, although they were defeated, no cruelties were inflicted upon the followers of Kheperr..
The Girl's Own Paper, Vol. XX, No. 993, January 7, 1899
Various AuthorsMeanwhile we were furiously busy at the old search again. We were able to get more and fresh details about the whole business from a source which we knew to be perfectly reliable; and as these facts w..
Travels through the states of North America, and the provinces of Upper and Lower Canada
Isaac WeldAn enthusiastic admirer of the beauties of nature, the scenery of the countries through which he passed did not fail to attract a great part of his attention; and interspersed through the book will be..
Lambkin's Remains
Hilaire BellocThe acute eye of friendship and sympathy, coupled with the instincts of a scholar and a gentleman, perceived my irritation, and in the evening Lambkin uttered the memorable words that I have quoted. I..
The Girl's Own Paper, Vol. XX, No. 1018, July 1, 1899
Various AuthorsTo live in the same house with somebody so flatly antagonistic as she felt Jane intended to be, was a hard trial for a lonely and over-strained woman. Lucy realised that Jane was capable of insolence—..
A Gloucestershire Lad at Home and Abroad
F. W. HarveyMost of these poems were written at the Front, and appeared in the Fifth Gloucester Gazette—the first paper ever published from the trenches. The author was then a Lance-Corporal in the 5th Battalion ..
A Son of Ishmael - A Novel
L. T. MeadePeople talked a good deal about him, for he had an air of mystery which tantalised curiosity. He was tall, well set up, and strikingly handsome—too dark, perhaps, for the conventional Englishman, but ..