Classicly Collection of Books

Hey Rub-a-dub-dub

Theodore Dreiser

My pride in a sturdy, passive acceptance of things, however, is nearly realized in Vaclav Melka, the happy dispenser of “Vynas, Scnapsas.” He also is frequently to be found leaning in his doorway in s..

Janet: A Stock-Farm Scout

Lillian Elizabeth Roy

Saturday noon. Just finished luncheon with Nat and Jimmy. I never saw such a wonderful change in anyone as has taken place in Natalie since she came to Green Hill. Maybe it is due to her work in a gar..

Mildred's Married Life, and a Winter with Elsie Dinsmore

Martha Finley

Dr. Landreth had an errand down-town. Mildred stood at the window looking after him with loving, admiring eyes. He turned at the gate to lift his hat and kiss his hand to her with a bow and smile, the..

Polly in the Southwest

Lillian Elizabeth Roy

In spite of persuasions, threats, and prophecies of good times to be missed, the Ashbys and Fabians could not be induced to join the proposed party to the Southwest. Mr. Ashby declared that he would h..

The Japanese New Year’s Festival, Games and Pastimes

Helen Cowen Gunsaulus

The Japanese prints with which we are most familiar in this country are those known as nishikiye, literally “brocade picture.” Generally speaking, they are portraits of actors and famous beauties or l..

The Perilous Seat

Caroline Dale Snedeker

The background and details of this story have been carefully authenticated. The founding of the colony Inessa, however, is not an actual event. It is the union of a number of colony traditions. It is ..

The Young Continentals at Monmouth

John T. McIntyre

This book tells the story of Ben Cooper at Princeton and in the dark period of Brandywine and Valley Forge, and ends with the victory at Monmouth, when Washington overcame not only his open enemies, b..

Cottage scenes during the cholera

William Isaac Coppard

When we recollect the scenes at Bilston, Sedgly, Plymouth, and other populous districts, where the epidemic spread among thousands, it is evident that the labour and exertion of those whose duty calle..