Kempis, Cardinal Wiseman's "Doctrines of the
Church," and a Jesuit Father's idea of the Happiness of Heaven.

Uncle's fondness for his country home was manifested by thirty or more
large volumes upon Agriculture, and several others upon Rural
Architecture, while his literary and aesthetic taste was displayed by a
superb edition of Macaulay, in eight octavo volumes, combining the
whitest of paper and the largest and clearest type, with richest
binding; Lord Derby's translation of the Iliad, Mackay's "Thousand and
One Gems," a large and elegant volume of Byron's complete works, and
Bryant's "Library of Poetry and Song"--the two latter beautifully bound
and illustrated. Xenophon, Herodotus, Josephus, and Caesar lay off at
an aristocratic distance from their neighbors, and looked down with
scorn upon anything so modern as Noel's "Rebellion," or Draper's "Civil
War in America;" while memories of the buried "Brook Farm" arose from
the past as mamma took up a volume or two upon Co-operative
Associations.

Uncle's strict temperance principles were illustrated by half a dozen
volumes upon the "Effects of Alcohol," including "Scriptural Testimony
against Wine;" and a work or two upon the Tariff Question recalled many
a _Tribune_ editorial penned by the dear, dead hand.

A large dark pile of some twenty volumes loomed up from a distant
corner--Appleton's useful Cyclopaedia--and beside them lay an enormous
Webster's Dictionary, handsomely put up in a chocolate-colored library
binding.

Many elegantly bound volumes were presentation copies from their
authors--among them a magnificent album of languages, beautifully
illuminated, and bound in scarlet morocco, containing the Lord's Prayer
in one hundred different tongues. This book sold, Ida said, for one
hundred dollars a copy.

In striking contrast with this gorgeous volume were two little
yellow-leaved, shabbily bound books, valued, however, at one hundred
dollars each, and treasures which no money could have bought from
uncle--one a copy of Erasmus, dated Basle, 1528, and the other "The
tvvoo Bookes of Francis Bacon on the Proficience and Aduancement of
Learning, diuine and humane," printed, the fly-leaf states, at London,
in 1605.

_July 3_.

I have not yet, I believe, spoken of more than one or two of the
pictures that uncle bought while in Europe the first time. He then
spent ten thousand dollars on paintings, a piece or two of sculpture,
and a few little curiosit