Classicly Collection of Books

Chambers's Journal of Popular Literature, Science, and Art, Fifth Series, No. 107, Vol. III, January 16, 1886

Chambers' Journal

Communication between the vessels of the fleet is effected at night by means of the flashing light worked on the short and long flash principle, invented by Captain Colomb, R.N. There are few sights m..

Life of Frances Power Cobbe

Frances Power Cobbe

The story of the beautiful life which came to an end on the 5th of April, 1904, is told by Miss Cobbe herself in the following pages up to the close of 1898. Nothing is left for another pen but to ske..

Memories and Adventures

Arthur Conan Doyle

During these first ten years I was a rapid reader, so rapid that some small library with which we dealt gave my mother notice that books would not be changed more than twice a day. My tastes were boyl..

Motor Camping

John Cuthbert Long

There are many thousands of acres of free camping grounds in the national and state public playgrounds. In addition, nearly every town west of the Appalachians has its camp site, while on the Atlantic..

Nick Carter Stories No. 137

Nicholas Carter

Larry Dugan, Foxey, and Pet all understood this, and they had taken instant advantage of the odds in their favor. Pulling the two prisoners from one boat to the other, they had allowed them to lie dow..

Plantation Echoes

Elliott Blaine Henderson

The music of the American negro, the fresh and spontaneous expression of a good and care-free heart, has long been one of the most pleasing features of American life. It is human nature in its first v..

The Law of Hotel Life

Robert Vashon Rogers

The author knows as well as did old Burton that "books are so plentiful that they serve to put under pies, to lap spice in, and keep roast meat from burning," yet he ventures to offer another volume t..

A Cigarette Clew

Nicholas Carter

Nick discharged his revolvers, but the rush of his enemies was not stayed. He was assailed from all sides, and when he found the quarters too close for revolver work, he gripped the weapons by the bar..