The home library . es and styles. The revolving book-caseshown in the illustration will hold nearly fifty bulky vol-umes. It is mounted on casters, and can be kept in acorner out of the way. More ample than the hanging shelves, or either of thesereference book-cases, are the so-called Eastlake Portable Book - Cases (Fig. 10),which stand four or fivefeet high from the floorand hold five or sixshelves, three or fourfeet long. They willaccommodate, perhaps,twice as many volumesas the largest set ofhanging shelves ; and,as they stand solidly andfirmly on the floor, theymay be laden safely withheav
The home library . es and styles. The revolving book-caseshown in the illustration will hold nearly fifty bulky vol-umes. It is mounted on casters, and can be kept in acorner out of the way. More ample than the hanging shelves, or either of thesereference book-cases, are the so-called Eastlake Portable Book - Cases (Fig. 10),which stand four or fivefeet high from the floorand hold five or sixshelves, three or fourfeet long. They willaccommodate, perhaps,twice as many volumesas the largest set ofhanging shelves ; and,as they stand solidly andfirmly on the floor, theymay be laden safely withheavy tomes which onemight not be willing totrust to the more fragilehanging a greater collection of books has been got to-gether than can be stored comfortably in one or two ofthese simple and ready-made book-cases, the collector be-gins to feel that he has something worthy of being called alibrary, and he is likely to seek to house it more luxuri-ously. In all probability a separate room is set apart for. Fig. 10. 56 THE HOME LIBRARY. the literary treasures, and this room is called the library,and its walls are more or less lined with book-cases madeto order. And here we are met at once with the questionas to whether the book-cases ought to haye doors or is great diversity of opinion among experts. Themanufacturer of the Eastlake Portable Book-case hassolved the question to his satisfaction by doing withoutdoors. The ordinary maker of ready-made furnituresolves the question to his satisfaction in turn by offeringfor sale a book-case with glass doors. And the collector ofbibliographic curiosities solves it anew also to his satisfac-tion by hiding his treasures in a book-case with woodendoors, seeking in vain to keep out the light which fadesand the dust which destroys. There are those who haveopen shelves adorned with a pendant fringe of leather orcloth. There are those again who have doors of openframe-work filled with wire netting. Which is the best of the
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