Classicly Collection of Books

Myths and Folk-lore of the Timiskaming Algonquin and Timagami Ojibwa

F. G. Speck

It is important to note, in dealing with myths in this area, that the scenes of the trickster-transformer’s adventures always lay in well known localities within the territory of the band among which ..

Observations on Abortion

John Burns

By abortion is generally understood the expulsion of the contents of the gravid uterus, at a period of gestation so early as to render it impossible for the fœtus to live. It is an accident or disease..

The Bagpipers

George Sand

I dedicate this novel to you, my dear Eugène, not to give you a proof of motherly affection, which you do not need to make you feel at home in my family, but to leave with you, after I am gone, a poin..

The Curtiss Aviation Book

Glenn Curtiss

Glenn Hammond Curtiss was born at Hammondsport, New York, May 21, 1878. His middle name shows his connection with the pioneer family for which the town is named. Then Hammondsport was a port for canal..

The Moon - A Popular Treatise

Garrett Putman Serviss

One serene evening, when the full moon, rising slowly above the tree tops, began to spread over the landscape that peculiar radiance which, by half revealing and half concealing, by softening all outl..

A Tragic Idyl

Paul Bourget

The group of three persons who had been compelled to choose a corner of this mundane caravansary for that romantic conspiracy was composed of a young man and two women. The young man appeared to be th..

Labour and the Popular Welfare

W. H. Mallock

The enormous increase in our national income and our national capital is doubted or denied by no one. Now let us express the increase in income as a supposed increase in the average height of the room..

Learning and Other Essays

John Jay Chapman

An expert on Greek Art chanced to describe in my hearing one of the engraved gems in the Metropolitan Museum. He spoke of it as ‘certainly one of the great gems of the world,’ and there was something ..