Classicly Books
Sorrow in Sunlight
Ronald FirbankIt was the hour when, fortified by a siesta, Mrs. Ahmadou Mouth was wont to approach her husband on general household affairs, and to discuss, in particular, the question of their removal to the town;..
The Art of Story-Telling
Julia Darrow CowlesGrateful acknowledgment is made to Miss Mabel Bartleson, children’s librarian, and to Miss Ida May Ferguson, of the children’s department of the Minneapolis Public Library, for their thoughtful assist..
The Church of Sancta Sophia, Constantinople - A Study of Byzantine Building
William Richard LethabySancta Sophia is the most interesting building on the world’s surface. Like Karnak in Egypt, or the Athenian Parthenon, it is one of the four great pinnacles of architecture, but unlike them this is n..
The Seven Lively Arts
Gilbert SeldesThis book was written while on holiday some three thousand miles away from data, documents, and means of verification. It is written from memory and, although I have had time and have tried to check u..
The Wild North Land
William Francis ButlerPeople are supposed to have an object in every journey they undertake in this world. A man goes to Africa to look for the Nile, to Rome to see the Coliseum or St. Peter’s; and once, I believe, a certa..
Venice
Mary Sturge GrettonVENICE herself is poetry, and creates a poet out of the dullest clay.” It was a poet who spoke, and his clay was instinct with the breath of genius. But it is true that Venice lends wings to duller cl..
Guide to Rocks and Minerals of Illinois
AnonymousThe complexity of Illinois geology is not produced by the upturning and sharp folding of rock layers such as can be seen in the Rocky Mountains, but rather by the changes in composition, thickness, an..
Machine-Gun Tactics
R. V. K. ApplinThis book, which was begun five years ago, is now published because I feel that, with all its faults, it may bring into greater prominence the latent possibilities of the machine gun, and the vital ne..