Classicly Collection of Books

A Text-Book of Horseshoeing, for Horseshoers and Veterinarians

Anton Lungwitz

Horseshoeing is an industry which requires, in equal degree, knowledge and skill. Horseshoeing, though apparently simple, involves many difficulties, owing to the fact that the hoof is not an unchangi..

Nick Carter Stories No. 141

Nicholas Carter

Nick Carter frowned while he read this communication, so suggestive of sanguinary designs. Had it been written by the driver of the limousine in which Waldmere was seen to depart with an unknown woman..

Russian Silhouettes

Anton Chekhov

Stories of childhood: The boys. Grisha. A trifle from real life. The cook's wedding. Shrove Tuesday. In passion week. An incident. A matter of classics. The tutor. Out of sorts -- Stories of youth: A ..

The Poems of Felicia Hemans

Felicia Hemans

At about the age of eleven, she passed a winter in London with her father and mother; and a similar sojourn was repeated in the following year, after which she never visited the metropolis. The contra..

Chambers's Journal - Fifth Series, No. 9

Chambers' Journal

Meanwhile the harvest-work on the lands of Ringsford Manor was progressing rapidly—to the surprise of the neighbours, who had heard that Mr Hadleigh could not obtain hands, owing to his craze about th..

Great leaders - Historic portraits from the great historians

George T. Ferris

Every one perusing the pages of the historians must have been impressed with the graphic and singularly penetrative character of many of the sketches of the distinguished persons whose doings form the..

Secret of the Martians

Paul W. Fairman

It is very funny about the ice cliffs. Up there it snows in the winter I guess because they get higher and higher until they are like mountains. Then in spring, they melt in a few days. Nobody knows m..

The City of the Saints, and Across the Rocky Mountains to California

Sir Richard Francis Burton

A tour through the domains of Uncle Samuel without visiting the wide regions of the Far West would be, to use a novel simile, like seeing Hamlet with the part of Prince of Denmark, by desire, omitted...