Classicly Collection of Books

The Seven Lively Arts

Gilbert Seldes

This 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 Butler

People 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 Gretton

VENICE 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

Anonymous

The 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. Applin

This 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..

Memoirs of Bertha von Suttner (Vol. 2 of 2)

Bertha Von Suttner

It is a great gratification to me that the story of my life—which I cannot suppose to be of general interest except in so far as it is linked with the story of a world-wide movement—is now put before ..

Stray Feathers From a Bird Man's Desk

Austin Loomer Rand

This collection of articles, if it were a painting, could be called a conversation piece. Or it might be compared to a well-filled whatnot. Each of the sixty chapters is an independent unit, illustrat..

The Norse King's Bridal

E. M. Smith-Dampier

In these translations from the Danish I have adhered strictly to the metres of the original; this, however, is not the case with those from the Old Norse. The original ballads are not versifications o..