Classicly Collection of Books

Blackguard

Maxwell Bodenheim

During the twenty-one years of his life he had resembled an amateur actor, forced to play the part of a troubled scullion in a first act that bewildered and enraged him. At high-school he had been kno..

Hidden Country

Henry Oyen

Eight days later, shortly before noon, I stood on the curb outside the station in Seattle bargaining with a cabman to drive me to the dock where I had been directed to find a launch from the Wanderer ..

List, Ye Landsmen! A Romance of Incident

William Clark Russell

Sailors visit many fine countries; but there is none—not the very finest—that delights them more than the coast of their own native land when they sight it after a long voyage. The ship was the R..

Mancala, the National Game of Africa

Stewart Culin

The visitor to the little Syrian colony in Washington street in New York City will often find two men intent upon this game. They call it Mancala. The implements are a board with two rows of cup-shape..

Mrs. Siddons

Nina H. Kennard

In spite of Mrs. Siddons’s professed shrinking from the celebrity that biographers would confer upon her, and her preference for the “still small voice of tender relatives and estimable friends,” we k..

The Geography of New Jersey

Henry Snyder

The original inhabitants of New Jersey H were Indians of the Delaware tribe, which belonged to the Algonquin family. The early white settlers were of different nationalities,—Dutch, Swedes, English, a..

Turkey, the Great Powers, and the Bagdad Railway

Edward Mead Earle

The Chester concessions and the Anglo-American controversy regarding the Mesopotamian oilfields are but two conspicuous instances of the rapid development of American activity in the Near East. Turkey..

An Address to the People of New-England

Samuel Hopkins

    Stockbridge is in the very Road of, and more exposed to, the Indians from Canada, than any other Place whatever; and yet we see that the Enemy turned off East to Connecticut-Ri..