Category Archives: Non-fiction
Chronicles of America Volume 11 – Eve of the Revolution
Author(s): Carl L. Becker Here is a look at the evolution of thought and events...
Cheating the Junk-Pile — The Purchase and Maintenance of Household Equipments
Author(s): Ethel Rose Peyser This book of advice about the purchase and care of household...
Early Diary of Frances Burney, Vol. 1
Author(s): Fanny BurneyAnnie Raine Ellis Vol. 1 of Diaries and letters of the young Fanny...
Great Pianists on Piano Playing
Author(s): James Francis Cooke The full title of this book, published in 1913, gives a...
How to Eat: A Cure for “Nerves”
Author(s): Thomas Clark Hinkle A regime on how to keep a healthy mind in a...
Everglades Wildguide
Author(s): Jean Craighead George This is a United States National Parks guidebook written by a...
Gloves Past and Present
Author(s): Willard M. Smith From the preface: “For thirty years I have devoted myself to...
Condiments, Spices and Flavors
Author(s): Mary Elizabeth Green In this pamphlet no attempt has been made to give specific...
Birds and All Nature, Vol. VII, No 3, March 1900
Author(s): Various “Birds and All Nature” was a monthly publication of the Nature Study Publishing...
Journal Of Small Things
Author(s): Helen Gansevoort Edwards Mackay Brief journal sketches from France during WW1. The author was...
Modern Domestic Cookery
Author(s): William Augustus Henderson As there is scarce an individual who is not aware of...
Popular History of Ireland, Book 05
Author(s): Thomas D’Arcy McGee Thomas D’Arcy McGee was an Irish refugee and a father of...
Epistolae, the letters of Dante
Author(s): Dante Alighieri This volume contains the thirteen letters of the poet Dante Alighieri translated...
Reminiscences of a Southern Hospital, by Its Matron
Author(s): Phoebe Yates Pember Phoebe Yates Pember served as a matron in the Confederate Chimborazo...
From Alien To Citizen
Author(s): Edward A. Steiner Edward Steiner spent his life figuring out how America manages to...
On Everything
Author(s): Hilaire Belloc Hillaire Belloc of French by birth, British by naturalization was a diverse...
History of Farming in Ontario
Author(s): C. C. James This is a paper on the history of farming in Ontario....
Perfumes and their Preparation
Author(s): George William Askinson Most of us take for granted the sense of smell. It...
Recollections of Johannes Brahms
Author(s): Albert Hermann DietrichJoseph Victor Widmann Albert Dietrich, the German composer and conductor, was a...
In Defense of Harriet Shelley
Author(s): Mark Twain Mark Twain pulls no punches while exposing the “real” Percy Shelley in...
Comic English Grammar
Author(s): Percival Leigh This is a basic grammar, treating of the parts of speech, syntax,...
Is Sex Necessary? or Why You Feel The Way You Do
Author(s): James ThurberE. B. White From the Foreword: “During the past year, two factors in...
Dress Design: An Account of Costume for Artists and Dressmakers
Author(s): Talbot Hughes Explanations of Western European trends in men and women’s fashion from prehistoric...
My Hundred Favorite Recipes
Author(s): Mary Blake This is a collection of recipes all featuring Carnation Milk from soups...
Margaret Sanger; an autobiography
Author(s): Margaret Sanger Margaret Sanger, an advocate for birth control rights, chronicles the story of...
Prefaces and Prologues to Famous Books
Author(s): VariousCharles William Eliot Charles W. Eliot, 21st President of Harvard University, edited this volume...
Memoirs of the Distinguished Men of Science of Great Britain Living in the Years 1807-8
Author(s): William Walker, Jr. The early nineteenth century was a period of great discovery and...
Birds and Nature, Vol. VIII, No 3, October 1900
Author(s): Various “Birds and Nature” was a monthly publication of the Nature Study Publishing Company...
Lives of the Most Eminent Painters, Sculptors and Architects Vol 1
Author(s): Giorgio Vasari The Lives of the Most Excellent Italian Painters, Sculptors, and Architects, from...
Home Life of Poe
Author(s): Susan Archer Weiss The author of this biography of Poe, Susan Weiss, describes her...