Non-fiction Books

Catalonia & The Balearic Islands

Albert Frederick Calvert

Barcelona has remained true to her traditions. She is still, as of old, a city of merchant princes, a hive of industry, at once the Liverpool and Manchester of Spain. To those who visit the capital of..

Pyrotechnics

A. St. H. Brock

Pyrotechny is possibly the only art which can compete with nature; anyone who has seen a first-class firework display will admit that for impressive grandeur, colour effects, and contrasts of light an..

Medical Jurisprudence, Volume 3 (of 3)

John Ayrton Paris

The practitioner, says Orfila, will not be able to form a correct judgment in cases of this kind, if he neglect to pay attention, first, to the state of the stomach of the different persons poisoned; ..

The Arnold Bennett Calendar

Arnold Bennett

Enoch Arnold Bennett was born at Hanley-in-the-Potteries (one of the “Five Towns” frequently appearing in his writings) on 27th May 1867. He was educated at the endowed Middle School, Newcastle-under-..

Cubists and Post-impressionism

Arthur Jerome Eddy

The world is filled with ferment—ferment of new ideas, ferment of originality and individuality, of assertion of independence. This is true in religion, science, politics as well as in art. It is true..

Trial of the Major War Criminals Before the International Military Tribunal Vol. 10

Various Authors

Trial of the Major War Criminals Before the International Military Tribunal  Vol. 10..

Magic Shadows - The Story of the Origin of Motion Pictures

Martin Quigley

The audience for the first screen performance was as distinguished as any that has since graced a Hollywood production. Other professors of the Roman College were there to note for themselves on which..

The Deipnosophists or Banquet of the Learned of Athenæus, Vol. II (of 3)

Athenaeus of Naucratis

The Deipnosophists or Banquet of the Learned of Athenæus, Vol. II (of 3), by Athenaeus of Naucratis literally translated by C. D. YONGE, B.A. with an appendix of poetical fragments, rendered into engl..