Non-fiction Books

A Bundle of Letters

Henry James

A Bundle of Letters is a literary work written by Henry James, an American-British author regarded as a key transitional figure between literary realism and literary modernism, and is consid..

The Book of Good Manners

W. C. Green

THE BOOK OF GOOD MANNERS is a complete and authentic authority on every single phase of social usage as practiced in America. The author has compiled the matter in dictionary form in order to give the..

What is Property? An Inquiry into the Principle of Right and of Government

P. J. Proudhon

The correspondence of P. J. Proudhon, the first volumes of which we publish to-day, has been collected since his death by the faithful and intelligent labors of his daughter, aided by a few friends. I..

Potash and Perlmutter

Montague Glass

I don't got to go to Paris for that, Abe, Morris said.I can read the papers the same like anybody else, and just so long as there is a chance that the war would start up again and them hundred-mile gu..

Folkways

William Graham Sumner

Folkways, A Study of the Sociological Importance of Usages, Manners, Customs, Mores, and Morals. Preface by the author:In 1899 I began to write out a text-book of sociology from material which I had u..

Plunkitt of Tammany Hall

George Washington Plunkitt

Plunkitt of Tammany Hall: a series of very plain talks on very practical politics, delivered by ex-Senator George Washington Plunkitt, the Tammany philosopher, from his rostrum—the New York County cou..

The Beginner's American History

D. H. Montgomery

This little book is intended by the writer as an introduction to his larger work entitled The Leading Facts of American History. It is in no sense an abridgment of the larger history, but is practical..

Health on the Farm - A Manual of Rural Sanitation and Hygiene

Henry Fauntleroy Harris

The average American little needs advice on the conduct of his farm or business; or, if he thinks he does, a large supply of such help in farming and trading as books and periodicals can give, is avai..