Classicly Books
Cheating the Junk-Pile: The Purchase and Maintenance of Household Equipments
Ethel R. PeyserSeveral years ago we heard a great deal of talk about women’s place being in the home. The slogan was used as a campaign challenge and as a sneer. It was bandied up and down the country-side until we ..
Parts of Speech - Essays on English
Brander MatthewsThe point of view from which the English language has been approached is that of the man of letters rather than that of the professed expert in linguistics. But the writer ventures to hope that the pr..
The Life of Clara Barton, Founder of the American Red Cross - Vol I
William E. BartonThe life of Clara Barton is a story of unique and permanent interest; but it is more than an interesting story. It is an important chapter in the history of our country, and in that of the progress of..
The Story of Gombi
H. De Vere StacpooleNow you’ll see plainly enough that this new development had made matters ten times worse. Yet instead of that depressing me it bucked me like a glass of brandy. Sitting there on the log and thinking o..
Alice and Beatrice
GrandmammaThe children looked in, and saw several tubs of beer and cider placed side by side. Then grandmamma unlocked another door, and that was the wine cellar. They all went in; it was much cleaner and drier..
Two in Arcadia
Lucine FinchThere are snow peaks in your heart,And a grayness that is cold.But wisdom comes with loving, sweet,And all your moods my love can meet—Because my love is bold!Into the night we went, we two,Under the ..
The Glamour of the Arctic
Arthur Conan DoyleThe trade which these men follow is old and honorable. There was a time when the Greenland seas were harried by the ships of many nations, when the Basques and the Biscayens were the great fishers of ..
The House of the Arrow
A. E. W. MasonJim Frobisher had an unusual quality of which his acquaintances, even his friends, knew only the outward signs. He was a solitary person. Very few people up till now had mattered to him at all, and ev..