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
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.

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• 'You must be having a lovely time in such a charming place
• We took yesterday a drive to the western shore