Classicly Books
Lincoln, the American
Frank O. LowdenLincoln was above all a great American. Indeed, it was that same poet of yours, whom I have already quoted, who said of him—“new birth of our new soil, the first American.”All his life he hated slaver..
Phantom Duel
Ford McCormackBerry, the navigator, had turned in shortly after the fix and was probably asleep by now. Archer would need him—it was going to be tricky to plot a follow-course this close to the planet with enough l..
Blotted Out
Elisabeth Sanxay HoldingRoss hung up his wet overcoat and cap, and sat down with a magazine, to read. But he could not read a word. The engines had stopped; they had arrived; he was in New York. In New York. Try as he would ..
Forest Scenes in Norway and Sweden
Henry NewlandThe author has enlarged upon this, in the faint hope of drawing attention to these matters. He would suggest that some sort of superintendence would not be altogether superfluous, and that it is not e..
Our Winnie, and The Little Match Girl
Evelyn Everett-GreenWinifred did not know this; she only knew that she could not run about and play like other children, that she soon grew tired, and that it was much more pleasure to her to sit on the nursery window-se..
The Husband’s Story
David Graham PhillipsTo aggravate my situation, in the letter accompanying the manuscript, after several pages of the discriminating praise most dear to a writer’s heart, he did me the supreme honor of saying that in his ..
The Rockspur Eleven
Burt L. StandishLooking up, Don saw Leon Bentley stopping outside the fence. As usual, Leon was smoking a cigarette. He was dressed in a padded football suit, with his cap set rakishly over one ear, and his manner wa..
The Stuff of Manhood
Robert E. SpeerWhat is good in our lives as individuals and in our life as a nation is not in need of discussion here. And there is no nobility in analyzing and deriding our weaknesses. Our purpose is to urge our ke..