Classicly Collection of Books

Why We Love Music

Carl E. Seashore

Man 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 Carter

Nick 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 Miller

Mr. 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 Gilman

I 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. Hirn

The 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..

The Railway Conquest of the World

Frederick A. Talbot

There is the unfathomable fascination of romance connected with the construction of great railways, though little is known of the beginning and the growth of the great trunk roads of the world. This v..

Tibetan Tales, Derived from Indian Sources

Anton Von Schiefner

Towards the end of the ninth century, continues Schlagintweit, Buddhism was strongly opposed by a ruler who “commanded all temples and monasteries to be demolished, the images to be destroyed, and the..

A Warning to the Curious, and Other Ghost Stories

Montague Rhodes James

The curtains of the four-poster in the bedroom were closely drawn round four sides of it, and he put his finger in between them and felt in the bed. He drew the finger back hastily, for it almost seem..