History Books

The Bark Covered House

William Nowlin

The Bark Covered House Or, Back In the Woods Again; Being a Graphic and Thrilling Description of Real Pioneer Life in the Wilderness of Michigan. Preface from the book:I have delineated the scene..

Boer Politics

Yves Guyot

A word in explanation of this English edition is perhaps not unnecessary. It will be remembered that the arguments in the following pages appeared originally in the columns of Le Siècle, and from the ..

The Real Dope

Ring Lardner

The Real Dope is a historical account written b Ring Lardner, an American sports columnist and short-story writer best known for his satirical writings on sports, marriage, and the theatre. His c..

The King's Warrant - A Story of Old and New France

Alfred H. Engelbach

The King's Warrant: A Story of Old and New France is a fiction work by Alfred H. Engelbach, whose other writings include  "Poor Little Gaspard's Drum," "Lionel's Revenge," "Two Campaign..

British Borneo

W. H. Treacher

Sir William Hood Treacher KCMG was a British colonial administrator in Borneo and the Straits Settlements. He founded the Anglo Chinese School in Klang on 10 March 1893...

Pyrrhus, King of Epirus

Jacob Abbott

In respect to the heroes of ancient history, who lived in times antecedent to the period when the regular records of authentic history commence, no reliance can be placed upon the actual verity of the..

Eothen; Or, Traces of Travel Brought Home from the East

A. W. Kinglake

The two frontier towns are less than a cannon-shot distant, and yet their people hold no communion.  The Hungarian on the north, and the Turk and Servian on the southern side of the Save are as m..

India and the Indians

Edward Fenton Elwin

India is really waking up, but she is doing so in her own Indian way. For some years past it has been one of my daily duties to arouse an Indian boy, and I know exactly how an Indian wakes. It is a le..