Literary Books

Birds of Song and Story

Elizabeth Grinnell

One day there came a great spring freshet, the greatest freshet ever dreamed of, and all the land animals sought shelter in the trees and high mountains. But the water came up to the peaks and over th..

The Dream-God

John Cuningham

Farewells are spoken. The voyageurs are again a-wing. They reach the Arctic along the vast Siberian coast. There the cold is most intense, and of the frozen regions it is the wildest and grandest. A s..

Mere Literature, and Other Essays

Woodrow Wilson

The scientist, with his head comfortably and excusably full of knowable things, takes nothing seriously and with his hat off, except human knowledge. The creations of the human spirit are, from his po..

A Life's Story, In Poetry. Other Poems

Dennison Woodcock

A Life's Story, In Poetry, by Dennison WoodcockA LIFE'S STORYDIADAMATO LEONAJESSIE BY THE FOUNTAINDEHEWAMISTHE RUMSELLER'S SOLILOQUYWRIGHTSCAUTION TO BOYS, or THE SILLY FLYTHE RUINED HOME.IN FAVOR of ..

Lambkin's Remains

Hilaire Belloc

The acute eye of friendship and sympathy, coupled with the instincts of a scholar and a gentleman, perceived my irritation, and in the evening Lambkin uttered the memorable words that I have quoted. I..

Impromptu - How to Think on Your Feet

Grenville Kleiser

The game of "Impromptu" is the outgrowth of an exercise devised by the author and used by him in The Public Speaking Club of America. A conscientious student will endeavor to make each succeeding effo..

The Collected Works of William Hazlitt, Vol. 06 (of 12)

William Hazlitt

Original Essays on Men and Manners. By William Hazlitt. Edited by his Son. London: C. Templeman, 6, Great Portland Street,’ some essays were omitted, the order of the essays was altered, and two essay..

The Story of Rome, From the Earliest Times to the Death of Augustus

Mary Macgregor

The Story of Rome has been written, as you know, in your beautiful, quiet old garden. And as the story grew, the short cold days of winter passed and the long warm days of summer were here. In the gar..