Best of
Non-Fiction

1918

The Elements of Style


William Strunk Jr. - 1918
    Throughout, the emphasis is on promoting a plain English style. This little book can help you communicate more effectively by showing you how to enliven your sentences.

Three Times and Out


Nellie L. McClung - 1918
    When a young man whom I had not seen until that day came to see me in Edmonton, and told me he had a story which he thought was worth writing, and which he wanted me to write for him, I told him I could not undertake to do it for I was writing a story of my own, but that I could no doubt find some one who would do it for him.

The Catskills


Thomas Morris Longstreth - 1918
    with lots of history of Town of Olive not long afer the Ashokan Reservoir was built.

And They Thought We Wouldn't Fight


Floyd Gibbons - 1918
    Gibbons was a newspaper reporter, primarily for the Chicago Tribune. A well-known war correspondent, he was the first American to report on the Soviet famine of 1921. From the Foreword: Marshal Foch, the commander of eleven million bayonets, has written that no man is more qualified than Gibbons to tell the true story of the Western Front. General Pershing, Commander-in-Chief of the American Expeditionary Forces, has said that it was Gibbons' great opportunity to give the people in America a life-like picture of the work of the American soldier in France. See other titles by this author available from Kessinger Publishing.

Knowing Insects Through Stories


Floyd Bralliar - 1918
    They may be fascinating, and their material may be true, but one might read any number of them without making real progress in nature study. This book has been prepared with the hope that it may not only awaken interest, but may also guide the reader into systematic research [of insects]. In selecting the material I have tried either to choose subjects that are highly economic, or that are widely distributed, or both. The needs of the rural teacher have been kept constantly in mind as well as those of the child.