Classicly Collection of Books

Siberia To-Day

Frederick F. Moore

This is not a “war book,” nor an account of thrilling deeds, nor a history of our expedition in Siberia, but a book in which I have attempted to bring to the public a realization of the difficulties u..

The Wine Press and the Cellar

Emmet Hawkins Rixford

In 1876 the Mission grape sold in California for from $7.50 to $10 per ton, and foreign varieties for from $14 to $18 per ton, and consequently many vineyardists in districts remote from the market tu..

You Don't Walk Alone

Frank M. Robinson

Kelley had something there. Every time you think of an invasion from outer space, you think of a hundred huge rocket ships settling down with ray guns going full blast and king-sized atomic bombs brea..

Conversations on the Plurality of Worlds

Bernard de Fontenelle

We may find an eulogium on our author in l'Historie de l'Académie des Sciences for 1757, in the Mémoires de l'Académie des Belles-Lettres, and in a work written entirely on the subject, published by T..

Cosmic Saboteur

Frank M. Robinson

A voice from a million miles away said: "We're not supposed to kill him!" and he guessed that the men were from out of town because it was an accent that he had never heard before. Then two of them we..

Facts and fancies for the curious from the harvest-fields of literature

Charles C. Bombaugh

Literature, as an English writer remarks, is “not a matter of paper and ink, but a human voice speaking to human beings; a voice, or rather a collection of voices, from generation to generation, speak..

Farewell

F. W. Harvey

In spite of all the soulful utterances of people comfortably off, economic independence remains the first condition of happiness. This is not to say that people aren’t great fools for preferring law t..

Legends of Old Honolulu

W. D. Westervelt

The legends of a people are of interest to the scholar, the thinker, and the poet. The legends tell us of the struggles, the triumphs, and the wanderings of the people, of their thoughts, their aspira..