Classicly Collection of Books

Dreams and Images - An Anthology of Catholic Poets

Joyce Kilmer

This is not a collection of devotional poems. It is not an attempt to rival Orby Shipley’s admirable “Carmina Mariana” or any other similar anthology. What I have tried to do is to bring together the ..

Eunice and Cricket

Elizabeth Weston Timlow

Johnnie-goat was a very celebrated character in the neighborhood. He belonged to a livery-stable that was on the square back of the Wards. He was famous for eating off his rope and running away. He wa..

Recollections of Captain Wilkie - A Story of an Old Offender

Arthur Conan Doyle

Pray, do not think that I reasoned it out like this in my own mind. It is only now, sitting down with pen and paper, that I can see the successive steps. As it was, I had formed my conclusion within s..

Chambers's Journal of Popular Literature, Science, and Art, Fifth Series, No. 33, Vol. I, August 16, 1884

Chambers' Journal

In the month of June last the cave was thoroughly explored for the Ayrshire and Wigtownshire Archæological Association, under the superintendence of Sir Herbert Maxwell, M.P., and Mr Cochran-Patrick, ..

Hampshire Water-Colours

Wilfrid Ball

Hampshire Water-Colours by Wilfrid BallTower of College Chapel, WinchesterChurch of St. Lawrence, WinchesterMiddle Gate, Winchester CollegeThe Itchen near Chilland MillRomseyWest Gate, Southampto..

Ploughshare and Pruning-Hook - Ten Lectures on Social Subjects

Laurence Housman

These 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 Haggard

The 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 Authors

Meanwhile 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..