Classicly Collection of Books

Forest Trees and Forest Scenery

G. Frederick Schwarz

In the ensuing pages I have made simple inquiries into the sources of beauty and attractiveness in American forest trees and sylvan scenery. In a word, forestry interests us here because, having ..

The Canary Islands

Florence Du Cane

Possibly there are many other people as ignorant as I was myself on my first visit to the Canaries on the subject of cochineal. Beyond the fact that cochineal was a red dye and used occasionally as a ..

The Proof of the Pudding

Meredith Nicholson

The John Cecil Eaton thus limned was not the austere person Nan knew. Her Eaton was a sedate gentleman who made cryptic remarks to her at parties and was known to be exceedingly conservative in social..

A Journal of the Pilgrims at Plymouth

Dwight B. Heath

    Any good book must mean many things to many readers, and this journal offers more than just reflections of past glories and intimations of great tragedy. It is a primary source for Ameri..

A Soldier’s Diary

Ralph Scott

Lord Robert Cecil has said that he is amazed at the false picture of war given by the history books, and that he trusts that the historians of the future will give us a better picture of what war real..

Gloucestershire Friends

F. W. Harvey

A poet of power and a subtle distinction.... This little collection of his poems, which has a Preface by his Commanding Officer, will give him a high place in the Sidneian company of soldier-poets.E. ..

Hawaiian Historical Legends

W. D. Westervelt

From mist to sunshine—from fabled gods to a constitution and legislature as a Territory of the United States—this is the outline of the stories told in the present volume. This outline is thoroughly H..

John's Other Practice

Winston K. Marks

That did it. I almost got trampled in the stampede of high heels. Score one for my specialty in applied psychology and semantics. I learned later that, compared to one John Cunningham, I was a babe in..