Classicly Books
The River Rifles
Edward Sylvester EllisTheophilus McGowan, the author of this emigration scheme, was a middle aged man of large frame, weighing considerably over two hundred pounds. He came from Western Pennsylvania, where he was a promine..
The Seven Lamps of Advocacy
Edward Abbott ParryThe English Bar is a society of advocates, though, as Blackstone tells us, we generally call them counsel. The Scots retain the name in their Faculty of Advocates. The word must be insisted upon for i..
Chambers's Journal of Popular Literature, Science, and Art, Fifth Series, No. 36, Vol. I, September 6, 1884
Chambers' JournalBeing now robed, we enter the Hall. What a babel of tongues is here also! ‘Have you got a mess?’ is the question asked by friend of friend. (An Inn of Court mess consists of four persons, the first of..
Oliver Bright's Search
Edward StratemeyerOliver Bright’s Search, the second volume of the Bound to Succeed Series, relates the adventures of a manly American youth who goes West to locate a mine in which his invalid father owns a large inter..
Robin Hood and His Merry Foresters
Joseph CundallTales of Robin Hood and his merry foresters were the delight of my boyhood. Though many years have since glided away, I can recall these pleasures most vividly. Well do I recollect the youth who ..
Textile Fabrics
Daniel RockTextile Fabrics: A Descriptive Catalogue of the Collection of Church-vestments, Dresses, Silk Stuffs, Needlework and Tapestries, forming that Section of the Museum. Like every other specific coll..
The English Prison System
Evelyn Ruggles-BriseThe International Prison Congress at Washington the invitation of the British Government to hold the next Quinquennial Congress of 1915 in London. The invitation was accepted with enthusiasm. The..
The Wounded Name
D. K. BrosterFor Laurent's three great-aunts, "Mesdames Tantes de Roi," so christened by him on the analogy of those daughters of Louis XV who were thus known in the days of Louis XVI, were of a Royalist and Catho..