Classicly Books
Prison Life in the Old Capitol and Reminiscences of the Civil War
James J. WilliamsonThe little episode in relation to the Fairfax Court House raid will need no apology for its introduction, as I have already had occasion to refer to that affair in my diary. I have before me a re..
The Book Collector
Charles NodierBook collectors, M. Nodier to the contrary notwithstanding, are still very much alive, and can again be found even in the harried ranks of capitalists. But the learned French librarian was nearer righ..
The Palmer Method of Business Writing
A. N. PalmerThe Palmer Method of Business Writing: A Series of Self-teaching in Rapid, Plain, Unshaded, Coarse-pen, Muscular Movement Writing for Use in All Schools, Public or Private, Where an Easy and Legible H..
The Vampire of the Continent
Graf E. ReventlowCount Ernst zu Reventlow’s book “The Vampire of the Continent,” of which I have much pleasure in presenting a considerably abridged English edition to American readers, cannot be too strongly recommen..
Highways and Highway Transportation
George R. ChatburnThe primary objects have therefore been, to sketch briefly and simply the development of the transportation systems of the United States, to indicate their importance and mutual relations, to present ..
Stern
Bruce Jay FriedmanStern had held the smile on his own face as he drove by, letting it get smaller and smaller and sitting very stiffly, as though he expected something to hit him on the back of the head. On one other o..
Our Lady of Darkness
Bernard CapesOn a supremely hot noon of August, Mr Edward Murk, walking leisurely along a road pounded and compounded of small coal, came down towards the ancient city of Liége, and paused at a vantage-point to ta..
Straight to the Goal
Nicholas CarterWhen they walked across the drawbridge at the nearest of the four great gates of the city, and passed under the portcullis, escorted by a dozen of the guards of the high priest Calaman, the latter cam..