Non-fiction Books

A Popular History of Ireland

Thomas D'Arcy McGee

Thomas D'Arcy McGee was an Irish refugee and a father of the Canadian confederation. His work on Irish history is comprehensive, encompassing twelve books; Book 1 begins with the earliest modern settl..

General Science

Bertha May Clark

This book is not intended to prepare for college entrance examinations; it will not, in fact, prepare for any of the present-day stock examinations in physics, chemistry, or hygiene, but it should pre..

A Librarian's Open Shelf - Essays on Various Subjects

Arthur E. Bostwick

The papers here gathered together represent the activities of a librarian in directions outside the boundaries of his professional career, although the influences of it may be detected in them here an..

The Composition of Indian Geographical Names

J. Hammond Trumbull

The Composition of Indian Geographical Names Illustrated from the Algonkin Languages. Not that personal or proper names, in any language, were originally mere arbitrary sounds, devoid of meaning...

Noa Noa

Paul Gauguin

In 1894, Paul Gauguin left what he considered to be a culturally bereft Europe to live an unfettered life in a tropical paradiseTahiti. It was there that he produced some of his most beautiful and bes..

Original Narratives of Early American History

Various Authors

Although, in the narrative of the Gentleman of Elvas, the translation by Buckingham Smith has been followed, some corrections have been made in the text, and pains have been taken to set right, in acc..

Secret Societies of the Middle Ages

Thomas Keightley

If we had the means of investigating historically the origin of Secret Societies, we should probably find that they began to be formed almost as soon as any knowledge had been accumulated by particula..

The Graves of Academe

Richard Mitchell

Praised by critics across the nation, The Graves of Academe is Richard Mitchell’s angry and brilliant tour through America’s bloated public school system–whose mangled, self-serving language and polic..