Classicly Collection of Books

Lady Rum-Di-Doodle-Dum's Children

S. B. Dinkelspiel

My Preface is going to be different. It is about something that comes at the end and not the beginning; furthermore, I am not going to talk about myself. Of course you do not know what in the world I ..

The Ranger Boys and Their Reward

The boys were so overjoyed with the thought of regaining Sandy that they immediately promised Tom that the matter would be forgotten. Speeding up the machine as soon as they struck better road, they m..

The Woman of Knockaloe - A Parable

Sir Hall Caine

The story is laid in a little backwater of the war—a backwater which has never before, perhaps, been explored in literature—but nevertheless it is not in the ordinary sense a war story. The late Great..

The Yale Literary Magazine (Vol. I, No. 4, June 1836)

Students of Yale

In metaphysics are many points equally indeterminable. Here a man’s own mind is the field of observation, in every part of which the most rigid, extensive, and patient scrutiny, and the most careful c..

West African Folk-Tales

W. H. Barker

In presenting to the public these stories based on the folk-lore of the Gold Coast peoples, it seems necessary to say something in general terms of the economic and social development of the colony in..

The Yale Literary Magazine (Vol. I, No. 5, July 1836)

Students of Yale

Thus such an one will exultingly go forth in the full pride of scientific attainment, esteeming all things as certain when he has ascribed them to the laws of nature; not thinking of the mysterious ag..

The Yale Literary Magazine (Vol. I, No. 6, August 1836)

Students of Yale

His selfishness, especially his thirst for sway, aided by ignorance, has kept through force and fraud the true principles of human government from being understood and adopted. Still the ancient kingd..

A fragment of the prison experiences

Emma Goldman

Twenty-six years ago, in 1893, I paid the first toll for my opinions in the State of New York with a year’s free residence in the Blackwell’s Island Penitentiary. I found the cells small, dark, and fi..