Classicly Collection of Books

The Powder of Sympathy

Christopher Morley

I 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. Collins

In 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 Murdock

ENSHRINED 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 Haven

Gilman 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 Perry

Whittier’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..

More Beetles

Jean-Henri Fabre

This life of junketing has already lasted a fortnight without producing satiety. Such a protracted banquet is not frequent; we do not find it even in the Dung-beetles, who are zealous eaters. When the..

Return to Gone-Away

Elizabeth Enright

The Villa Caprice, the Blakes' new possession, was set a short distance beyond Gone-Away, surrounded by woods and a tangle of vine-woven hedges. It had belonged, many years before, to a strong-minded ..

The Memoirs of a Failure

Daniel Wright Kittredge

The truth is, no one ever knew Dunlevy well. So far as I am aware he had not a single intimate friend. He walked alone. I used to see him on winter afternoons going up Brattle Street, carrying his hea..