Marguerite and I wrote them down, and Minna then dusted and carried
them into the next room to Ida, who placed them upon the shelves,
dividing the library into compartments for poetry, biography, science,
fiction, etc
Our work was divided: mamma read off the names of the books, and
Marguerite and I wrote them down, and Minna then dusted and carried
them into the next room to Ida, who placed them upon the shelves,
dividing the library into compartments for poetry, biography, science,
fiction, etc. An endless task it seemed at first to sort the books,
for more than one thousand volumes of all sizes and in every variety of
binding from cloth to calf, had been thrown promiscuously on the floor,
and the hottest antagonists in the political and religious world were
now lying side by side in the apparent enjoyment of peace and
good-will. ‘Slavery Doomed’ and ‘Slavery Justified’ composed one
externally harmonious group, while ‘Footfalls on the Boundary of
Another World,’ ‘How I became a Unitarian,’ and Strauss” ‘Life of
Jesus,’ lay beside their rigidly orthodox neighbors, the ‘Following of
Christ,’ by Thomas Kempis, Cardinal Wiseman”s ‘Doctrines of the
Church,’ and a Jesuit Father”s idea of the Happiness of Heaven.

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