Classicly Collection of Books

Fifty Great Cartoons

Frank Beard

The church can scarcely be said to be somnolent. It is awake and active. But its activities are too frequently spent in affairs that do not relate to its mission which is to fight the hosts of sin in ..

In Caverns Below

Stanton A. Coblentz

Like many of life's crises, it was all over in a minute. Yet it seemed infinitely prolonged, seemed packed with the experience of hours, of days, almost of years. I can still relive the dagger-shaft o..

Ruysbroeck and the Mystics

Maurice Maeterlinck

The life of Jean von Ruysbroeck, like that of most of the great thinkers of this world, is entirely an inner life. He said himself, “I have no concerns outside.” Nearly all his biographers, Surius amo..

The Dead-Line

W. C. Tuttle

Jack went back to the corral, where he leaned on the fence and tried to decide what to do. Naturally his sympathies were with the cattleman. He had been born and raised in the Lo Lo Valley, steeped in..

The Lake Regions of Central Africa - A Picture of Exploration, Vol. 2

Sir Richard Francis Burton

The moisture-bearing wind in this part of Africa is the fixed south-east trade, deflected, as in the great valley of the Mississippi and in the island of Ceylon, into a periodical south-west monsoon. ..

The Sampo - A Wonder Tale of the Old North

James Baldwin

This is a tale which the runolainen of the far North used to sing in hovel and hall, and which the heroes of primeval times learned by heart and taught to their children. He has combined various parts..

The Strange Adventures of a Pebble

Hallam Hawksworth

The relation of this book to the formal study of physiography or geology in the schools will be apparent. The classified and exhaustive treatment of the text-book, while so admirably adapted to organi..

Comet Lore - Halley's Comet in History and Astronomy

Edwin Emerson

The great divines of the Church of England,—from Cranmer, Bishop Latimer, Archbishops Spottiswoode and Bramhall, Bishop Jeremy Taylor, down to our own times, clearly preached the doctrine that Comets ..