Classicly Books
History of the Cape Mounted Riflemen
Richard CannonBiographical memoirs of the Colonels and other distinguished Officers, will be introduced in the Records of their respective Regiments, and the Honorary Distinctions which have, from time to time, bee..
My Diary - North and South (vol. 1 of 2)
William Howard RussellA book which needs apologies ought never to have been written. This is a canon of criticism so universally accepted, that authors have abstained of late days from attempting to disarm hostility by con..
Shadow in the House
Sinclair GluckIn the rococo reception-room its recent owner still held the center of the stage, that dominance now one of arresting tragedy rather than of personality. He lay flat on his back, limp and motionless, ..
Why We Love Music
Carl E. SeashoreMan is born with a psychophysical organism which registers sounds and responds to them somewhat like a resonator, which selects, amplifies and aids in the integration of auditory impressions. Our whol..
The Plot That Failed
Nicholas CarterNick Carter stands for an interesting detective story. The fact that the books in this line are so uniformly good is entirely due to the work of a specialist. The author of these stories knew more abo..
Things
Alice Duer MillerMr. Royce, who met him at the station, seemed a peaceful sort of person, too—a man whose forebears had been more like fairy god-parents than ordinary ancestors, for they had given him a handsome, heal..
Moving the Mountain
Charlotte Perkins GilmanI am the only son of a Methodist minister of South Carolina. My mother was a Yankee. She died after my sister Ellen was born, when I was seven years old. My father educated me well. I was sent to a sm..
The origins of art
Y. HirnThe aim and scope of this book is sufficiently indicated by its title. I have endeavoured throughout to restrict my attention to questions connected with the origins of art. In purely scientific matte..