Classicly Collection of Books

Rubber Hand Stamps and the Manipulation of Rubber

T. O'Conor Sloane

The articles produced are of more than ordinary utility. These two facts give value to the art and furnish a raison d’être for this book. If its instructions do not prove practical it will have missed..

The Beginnings of America, 1607-1763

Richard B. Morris

This is the first of a series of booklets containing the story of America, as told by those who were there, the eyewitnesses and participants. The selections which make up this booklet are a few of th..

Wireless Telegraphy and Telephony Simply Explained

Alfred Powell Morgan

Wireless telegraphy, that marvelous art which has made possible the instantaneous transmission of intelligence between widely distant parts having no apparent physical connection save that of the eart..

Fabre's Book of Insects

Mrs. Rodolph Stawell

My first introduction to chemistry was less fortunate. It ended in the bursting of a glass vessel, with the result that most of my fellow-pupils were hurt, one of them nearly lost his sight, the lectu..

Wanderings in Three Continents

Sir Richard Francis Burton

Burton was a many-sided man. The following volume of posthumous essays reveals him in the aspect in which he was best known to the world—​as a traveller and explorer. It will add comparatively little ..

An Attempt to Investigate the Seat of Animal Life

Henry Curtis

Some physiologists, and those of no mean note, have considered the operations of the human frame as a circle of functions governed by mechanical organic laws, as we discover in an hydraulic machine, o..

The Young Continentals at Lexington

John T. McIntyre

“The Young Continentals at Lexington” begins with that vital period of our country’s history when the great forces that made the Revolution were slowly coming together. The second book of the ser..

A poem on the earthquake at Lisbon

Anonymous

Horror and Desolation you’d no more!And now that once fair Town with all her Store,And ev’ry Soul that hail’d the rising Day,Heaving in Death like one vast Body lay.The Fires, that glimm’ring still wi..