Classicly Collection of Books

The Sea-Shore, Shown to the Children

Theodore Wood

In this little book I want to talk to you about some of the strange and wonderful creatures which you may find when you go to stay by the sea-side. And first of all I should like to tell you something..

The Truth About an Author

Arnold Bennett

Sometime in the last century I was for several years one of the most regular contributors to "The Academy," under the editorship of Mr. Lewis Hind and the ownership of Mr. Morgan Richards. Mr. An..

Trees, Shown to the Children

C. E. Smith

In this little book I have written about some of the trees which you are likely to find growing wild in this country, and Miss Kelman has painted for you pictures of these trees, with drawings of the ..

The Adventures of Gil Blas of Santillane, Volume 1 (of 3)

Alain Rene Le Sage

There are some people in the world so mischievous as not to read a work without applying the vicious or ridiculous characters it may happen to contain to eminent or popular individuals. Certain physic..

The Adventures of Gil Blas of Santillane, Volume 2 (of 3)

Alain Rene Le Sage

The count of Asumar staid till quite evening with my master, who had no sooner got rid of him, than he sallied forth with me in his train. We went to Euphrasia's, who lived within a stone's throw of o..

The Adventures of Gil Blas of Santillane, Volume 3 (of 3)

Alain Rene Le Sage

Don Huberto, a man totally devoid of principle, could not feel his passion to be foiled without entertaining a mean spirit of revenge. He knew the weak side of Don Anastasio's temper. This was enough ..

The Flowering Plants of South Africa (Vol. 3)

I.B. Pole Capart

In the Botanical Magazine, an excellent figure of this species was given with some critical notes by Sir Joseph Hooker on the taxonomic affinities of the species, and recently (Kew Bulletin, 1920) Mr...

The King of the Mamozekel

Charles G. D. Roberts

Delicately filming with the first green, and spicy-fragrant, were the young birch-trees on the slopes about the Mamozekel water. From tree-top to tree-top, across the open spaces, the rain-birds calle..