Classicly Books
The Asbestos Society of Sinners
Lawrence Daniel FoggThe Asbestos Society of Sinners: detailing the diversions of Dives and others on the playground of Pluto, with some broken threads of drop-stitch history, picked up by a newspaper man in Hades and wov..
The Gates of Morning
H. De Vere StacpooleSome day they would come. The vision of Palm Tree seemed to repeat what instinct told him. They would build canoes and seeing the lagoon mirror-light in the sky, they would come. They had no women, th..
The Poor Man
Stella BensonMiss Romero shrieked, “Very nice! Oh, Edward, you’re so discouragingly British.” She proceeded to convey to him the politer aspects of his banishment to China. The illusion of usefulness and a certain..
The Powder of Sympathy
Christopher MorleyI have christened these soliloquies after dear old Sir Kenelm Digby’s famous nostrum, the Powder of Sympathy. But in spite of its amiable name and properties that powder was not a talcum. Its basis wa..
The Truth About Lynching and the Negro in the South
Winfield H. CollinsIn the preparation of these pages an effort has been made to discover and present the truth in regard to the Negro in the South. The first three chapters need not be considered an attempt at justifica..
Constantino Brumidi, Michelangelo of the United States Capitol
Myrtle Cheney MurdockENSHRINED in the domed Rotunda of the United States Capitol, as in the Roman Pantheon from which it is descended, are the noblest hopes of a mighty Nation. The monumental mural is usually better ..
All's not Gold that Glitters
Alice Bradley HavenGilman chuckled as he said this, and set a dilapidated hat a little more over his eyes, to shade them from the strong light of the declining sun. No wonder they needed it; for they were weak and blear..
John Greenleaf Whittier: A sketch of his life, with selected poems
Bliss PerryWhittier’s direct contact with the soil and his intense interest in localities made him also an unequalled interpreter of sectional feeling. “Massachusetts to Virginia” is perhaps the finest example o..