The daily morning journal and courier., 1901-08-09

Quate accommodation of the books had become a problem with him; and when l the house on Brattle street was being | constructed, he had spacious room for a library included in the plans. And when the new house was finished l Dr. Fis5e found a keen delight in the thought of moving his treasured vol
 umes into the library, and he had had
 his work begun shortly before his death | and was superinte ending the removal of
 the books from their old resting places | to the new shelves.
 l Dr. Fiske. aside from loving to work | in his chosen departments of human knowledge and discussion, loved the books themselves which he used and | each one of them was treated with the devotion and regard shown to dear friend. He had many very old bind ings in his possession, and he made it his rule never to destroy any of them for a new bindng-in fact, his venera- tion for the old covers and the old stamping never would allow him to do so. Another indication of Dr. Fiske's
 love for his books is to be found in the
 attention he gave to securing just those effects in binding that should suit his
 artistic sense. He frequently went to
 his binder, MT. McNamee, with gene
 ral scheme, outlined on paper, for the
 printing of the covers of the books he
 was having newly bound; and in the
 selection and matching of papers,
 cloths and feathers he had perception
 that was uniquely acurate.
 Sections of shelves are occupied by
 series of books upon kindred subjects,
 Here, for instance, are sets of tall,
 thick volumes of the hist tories of differ
 ent countries and Of great historical
 movements-works upon the history of
 England, Egypt, Phoenicia, India, Sic
 ily the Norman conquest, the French
 Revolution and the Renaissance in Ita-
 ly. Upon other shelves are the thirty
 one volumes of the "Histoire Ges Fran
 cais," strikingly bound in half-red mo-
 rocco, with marbled edges and gilt
 backs. Near by are the commanding German volumes "Hegels Werke,," bound in an odd German binding of full paper.
 One of the many unusual works which Dr. Fiske possessed, and in
 WHICH HIS Illllu WdS CUllSldllLly uGllS It, ing itself, was book entitled Trans lations from Chinese and Armenian, and it's binding Is as unique as its con- tents. It Is is done in red morocco, with a back beautifully fooled in gold from special design. Upon quite an- other historical subject and still more lavishly bound is a volume weighty in every sense of the word. Cotton Ma ther's "Magnalia Christi Americana an ecclesiastical history of New Eng land from 1920 to 1898 This is su- perb specimen of he skill of Pratt, a London book binder, who did the book in full crushed levant and gilt edges. A set of Renan, in red morocco, is one of the strong points of the collection. Dr. Fiske, who was q graduate of Harvard in the class of 1S63 always was inter- ested in collecting the best sources of as to the history and pro- gress of his alma mater and on his shelves he has no small number of sub stantially bound volumes bearing upon this subject. Among them are the Graduates Magazine, etc. His own works, which have command ed attention on both sides of the Allan tic, are modestly placed on inconspic- uous shelves Tribune.