Gordon Stables: 50 books

A story of the domestic cat. Everything you need to know about the domestic cat. Disciver a complete book about the Domestic cat ! EXTRAIT In regard to the origin of the domestic cat, naturalists have squabbled and fought for centuries, and the best thing possible, I think,...

There is no doubt at all that when young Frank Willoughby brought out his book with him, and seated himself on the trunk of the old fallen tree, he meant to read it; but this intention had soon been abandoned, and, at the moment our tale commences, the book lay on the grass at his feet, and Frank was...

POOR JACK. As ye sweep through the deep While the stormy winds do blow, While the battle rages loud and long, And the stormy winds do blow. CAMPBELL. Just two years this very day since poor Jack Mackenzie sailed away from England in the Ocean Pride.

A thrilling tale of the sea and service, written for younger men.

A fascinating tale of shipwrecks, adventure, and strange, wonderful places visited by two brothers.  Well worth the read.

The Young Chief of Arrandoon—The Rising Storm—Lost in the Snow. It was winter. Allan McGregor stood, gun in hand, leaning against a rock half-way down the mountain-side, and, with the exception of himself and the stately deer-hound that lay at his feet, there was no sign of any living thing in...

Wilder scenery there is in abundance in Scotland, but hardly will you find any more picturesquely beautiful than that in which the two great rivers, the Clyde and the Tweed, first begin their journey seawards. It is a classic land, there is poetry in every breath you breathe, the very air seems redolent...

Prefaces are not always necessary; but when an author has either to acknowledge a courtesy, or to make an apology, then a preface becomes a duty. I have to do both. Firstly, then, as regards acknowledgment. I have endeavoured in this book to give sketches—as near to nature as a line could be drawn—of...

The Skin—Its Uses and Great Importance in the Animal Economy. Apart from any consideration of the bath as a remedial measure, in cases of disease, its importance as an agent for preserving the health, and granting to those who use it judiciously a reasonable hope of long life, cannot easily be over-estimated....

Early Days. “Away, ye gay landscapes, ye garden of roses, And bring me the land where the dewdrop reposes.” Byron. “Poor woolly mOther, be at peace! Whither thou goest I will bear thy care.” M. Arnold. Scene: A Highland mountain, clad almost to the summit in purple heather. On the right a...

“And I have loved thee, Ocean! and my joy Of youthful sports was on thy breast to be Borne, like thy bubbles, onward; from a boy I wantoned with thy breakers—they to me Were a delight... For I was, as it were, a child of thee.” Byron. Not a breath of wind from any direction. Not a cloud in the...

Our Home by the Sea. Chapter One. The Old Home by the Sea—Aunt Serapheema. Reginald Augustus John Fitzmaurice Jones! That is my name in full. There is not the slightest occasion to remember it