Recreation Books

The Art of Stage Dancing

Ned Wayburn

The Art of Stage Dancing is The Story of a Beautiful and Profitable Profession written by Ned Wayburn, a choreographer who was born in Pennsylvania, a grandson of Samuel Fletcher Weyburn.Excerpts:Ever..

The High School Left End

H. Irving Hancock

The High School Left End is a boarding school juvenile fiction story for boys written by Harrie Irving Hancock, an American chemist and writer, mainly remembered as an author of children's litera..

Ned Myers, or, a Life Before the Mast

James Fenimore Cooper

American writer James Fenimore Cooper's engrossing biography of Ned Myers, a sailor and Cooper's companion at sea. The authentic details shed light not only on Myer's life but also on the po..

Checkmates for Four Pieces

William Brett Fishburne

Checkmates for Four Pieces written by William Brett Fishburne...

Hindu Magic

Hereward Carrington

As so much is heard of Indian magic, and the powers of the Oriental performer, it may be well to examine their performances somewhat critically, and to see how far we are entitled to assume that there..

Golf Architecture - Economy in Course Construction and Green-Keeping

Alister Mackenzie

My partner, who is the author of these short essays on Golf Course Architecture, has asked me to write an introduction. This is, however, hardly necessary, as the name of Dr. Mackenzie is so well know..

Mirabilia descripta - The wonders of the East

Friar Jordanus

The little work here presented was printed in the original Latin at Paris in 1839, under the editorship of M. Coquebert-Montbret, in the Recueil de Voyages et de Mémoires, publié par la Société de Géo..

The Open Polar Sea

I. I. Hayes

The reader will observe that I have not attempted, in any sense, to write a work of Science. True, the purpose of the voyage was purely a scientific one,—its chief object and aim being to explore the ..