Classicly Collection of Books

Charles Neville Buck

Charles Neville Buck

The allegation that Love laughs at locksmiths has become more generally accepted than verity warrants. In point of fact the locksmith has never been altogether without the honors of war, and during th..

In Naaman's House

Marian MacLean Finney

To think of Benjamin, who had never cared for any maid but herself! They had been childish sweethearts. Around her neck at this very instant was suspended from a grass-woven chain a bracelet of dried ..

Mr. Wu

Louise Jordan Miln

Little Wu was interested. He had read of such marriages and he knew that they really took place sometimes. He rather liked the scheme—if only he need not go to England for hideous years of wifeless ho..

The Cameronians - A Novel, Volume I

James Grant

The old Scottish regiment from which the following story takes its title, and of which the hero is described as a member, is on the point of losing its identity, and after the July of this year will b..

The Cameronians - A Novel, Volume II

James Grant

Hew, among other 'caddish' tastes and propensities, was fond of 'sherry-glass flirtations' at bars and buffets, where sham smiles are bartered for button-hole flowers, amid bantered compliments and ho..

The Cameronians - A Novel, Volume III

James Grant

Hew was far from dying yet, as the doctor averred; and Sir Piers too—he 'had seen too much of that sort of thing up country, not to know all about it;' but, in his lowness and perturbation of spirit, ..

The Doves' Nest, and Other Stories

Katherine Mansfield

Katherine Mansfield died at Fontainebleau on January 9th 1923, at the age of thirty-four. The title of this volume, “The Doves’ Nest and Other Stories,” is the title which Katherine Mansfield int..

A Gamekeeper's Note-book

Owen Jones

A gamekeeper's notes are written for the most part on the tablets of his mind. He is a man of silence; yet he is ever ready to unlock the casket of his memories if old friends, and sympathetic, are ab..