Classicly Books
Twenty Years' Residence among the People of Turkey
Fanny Janet Sandison BluntThe book has been divided into four parts. In the first, the general characteristics of the various races of Turkey are sketched. Very little is said about their history, for it is not the history but..
Unfinished Rainbows, and Other Essays
George Wood AndersonThat is a sweeping promise that is literally fulfilled in nature. All clouds carry rainbows. Most of them are never seen by us because we lack the necessary keenness of vision, or the proper point of ..
An Illustrated Dictionary of Words used in Art and Archaeology
John W. MollettThe Greek and Roman Antiquities, which are the principal part of M. Bosc’s work, have been in this volume reduced to the smallest possible compass: the Dictionaries of Dr. Smith and Rich must be refer..
Good hunting; in pursuit of big game in the West
Theodore RooseveltThis series of articles upon big-game hunting was written for Harper’s Round Table, and published therein in 1897. The picture of ranch life which forms the closing chapter appeared in Harper’s Round ..
Idealia, a Utopian Dream
H. Alfarata Chapman ThompsonThe writer in sending out this little book asks that its readers will try to bear in mind that while the whole idea may be more or less ideal, it is hoped that here and there a thought may be culled w..
Kak, the Copper Eskimo
Violet IrwinOne morning Kak wakened early and lay staring up at the snow ceiling. It looked mysteriously large and gloomed, for Guninana was saving oil and only a small light flamed in one corner of the large lam..
The History of the Manners and Customs of Ancient Greece, Volume 2 (of 3)
James Augustus St. JohnThe marriage of brothers with their own sisters was, in later ages, considered illegal; not so with respect to half sisters by the fathers’s side, whom no law forbade men to marry. Still the recorded ..
The Tuberculosis Nurse
Ellen N. La MotteDuring eight successive years the writer has been engaged in special tuberculosis work, first as field nurse of the Visiting Nurse Association of Baltimore, later as organizer and director of the Tube..