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Show - 4 GREAT LIBRARY FOR ENLIGHTENMENT OF SINGLE FAMILY I Ever since the days of Solomon the world has repeated over ami over the words of the man of wisdom wis-dom that to the rnaklny of many 1 kj tVre 1h no cmi; neither is there any end to the making of libraries. But good libraries, suoh .a Dc: in the boilW of It. A Long in Ku sas City, are as rare as they arc wj! phtfuL The spacious room la veafh Mr. Lon.; has assembled liis ho ks is so aranged and so appointed aB to be conducive to sober thought and contemplation. There rue a few fth'i ell paintings on tiu- w nils, but thfcs? ar-j atud.ous;y meant to rest the e and not to ( vert the mind from the pursuit of knnv edge. The oooks ihemscl.es. while richly bound, aro not obtrusive; ob-trusive; they do not proclaim themselves, but have the modpt rind inconsplcuousness to a reserve force. The room is very hat, lsotuely and astefully furnished, whore the student stud-ent may lounge at ease and b:xu-Jlato b:xu-Jlato iri comfort. An ampi? lire-place lire-place gives the ro-m an air of homelike bliss. In th center is a bronze equestrian statue of Napoleon Napol-eon Bonaparte, flanked by two Kreat candelabra, somehow reminding remind-ing one of Liberty Enlightening the giai World Over here by this wall, sur- mounting a broad bookcase Is the -' statue of the Great Emancipator, M our own Lincoln; while farther I a long on the modest writing desk quarter oak, fumed antique oak is a small but striking piece of utatu-p'v, utatu-p'v, that of George Washington bidding bid-ding farewell to his mother. I Another piece of Statusy, !n 'bonze, is "My Bunkie." c- soldier . Olivine his wounded comrade from the Held. This has a conspicuous position, not far from '.ho typical ! r,.V-v,. the Iroquois Wgn-Ta-Waso c of the most attractive and tie- gant statues is that of Galatea, which recalls not only this one beautiful story, but at the same time .sweeping up from the storehouse of memory the whole range of Creek mythology. Th"jre is a Florentine clock, brought from Europe by Mr. Lfing some years ago. There are Russian vases and a rare one from fhlna. On the north vail is the picture of an Egyptian S'r.e, while on tht east wall, presidium over all, is the portrait in oil of Mr. Long, done by Zyllnski. This portrait is near the entrance, as I hough to bid the visitor a most hospitible welcome. The room is finished in dark oak and the bookcases are of the same style, the color scheme being most restful. As to the books chemsrdves, they are conveniently arranged in cases which require no stepladder to reach them. The sections are designated desig-nated alphabetically from A to Z. while in the catalogue the shelves are referred to as first, second, etc. The catalogue required almost a month to compile. By the aid of this catalogue one. can go unerringly unerring-ly and expeditiously to any book in any case. The library, therefore, there-fore, is a model of systematic arrangement. ar-rangement. All the histories are found in serled ranks in section P, and all the poets in section K. The dramas occupy a wide section to themselves. And so with every subject sub-ject Each book has its assigned place and there la no jumbling or crowding The several sections are separated each from the othor by a generous space; the books themselves them-selves repose most comfortably and awaiting the pleasure of the seeker for knowledge. There is not a trifling book in this assemblage of several thousand volumes. Each and every set has been chosen by A system of merit, on the recom mendation of the world's best scholars, schol-ars, and by the consensus and approval ap-proval of the unUersal Judgment of mankind. Every book here is a standard reflecting the substantial taste and character of the owner. Each volume has on the front flyleaf Mr. Longs bookplate, as characteristic as anything In the library. li-brary. In the center of the bookplate book-plate is a picture of the Long home; outside of the circle enclosing this picture arc pine forests; at the base are pine cones and foliage while over the upper part are the words, "Ex Libris," A ross tho bottom part of the bookplate is the name, "Robert Alexander Long.'' A more appropriate and Unique bookplate could hardly be conceived. It would be almost an endless task to enumerate all the works found in this library, The catalogue cata-logue above mentioned contains 135 pages with a double index and Is handsomely bound. In section A are such works as Bryce's American Amer-ican Commonwealth, Sir Walter Scott's prose works and those of Thomas Pnine. In section B are DlCnOns1 complete works and those of Edgar Allan Poer Thackeray and Bret Harte, tho latter In nineteen volumes; Georgo Eliot in twenty-one volumes full hand-tooled leather; Lytton, Stevenson, etc., all or nearly near-ly all in full-tooled leather or three-quarters leather. In section K are the English and American poets and these are almost al-most without exception silk lined hand tooled leather and are as exquisite ex-quisite as the book makers' art can contrive them. But it would be ln-Correct ln-Correct and misleading to say tho binding and printing in this section surpasses everything else in this splendid library; the books found here are all in the uniformity with those in se. tion K. The rich fancy of the poets seems to demand nore than othor works the superb binding bind-ing and gold borders which distinguish dis-tinguish all of Mr. Long's books. Here Is Robert Browning in seven-teen seven-teen volumes; Elizabeth Browning in live volumes; Chaucer, Milton and Swinburne, each in six volumes; Dante in three volumos; the Valpy Classic In fifty-two volumes, full hand tooled leather; while Southey is in ten volumes, published In 1837. Perhaps the rarest publication In tli is library is the Millenlal Harbinger. Har-binger. Bethany, vir., 1830 in fifty-seven fifty-seven volumes; these are theological discussions of the most exhaustive and searching character. If tho visitor carefully scrutinizes every detail de-tail ns he goes along he will observe in tlie neighborhood of the Millenlal Mill-enlal Harbinger an Oxford Bible of convenient size The latter shows the marks of usage, Indicating that it is somebody's favorite in this household. In Section H. second shelf from the top, Is M ithew Arnold's works and also John Flske's miscellanies; also Hazletts in twelve volumes and Carlyle In thirty volumes; Ruskln in nine volumes and th" British Essays Es-says (1818) by James Ferguson in lorry-flve oIumM-. In Section N is Grote's History of Greece, twelve volumes; the Greatness Great-ness and Decline of Rome, by Ker-rero; Ker-rero; the History of the Commonwealth Common-wealth of Florence by Trollopo. Here also are all Francis Park-man's Park-man's works, and those of Roosevelt; Roose-velt; the history of France by Guizot and Hume, and Smollett's History of England; the History of the United States by Rhodes; of "Our Own Country" by McCarthy, of Egypt by Maeperro and Green's History of tho English People in eight volumes. In conclusion we may mention tho History of All Nations In seventy-five seventy-five volumes published by Putnam & Sons. |