The home library . FiG. 2. Fig. 3. stantial table to support it. The marginal index verygreatly facilitates the finding of the needed word. ON THE BUYING AND OWNING OF BOOKS. 17 After the dictionary should come a really good haye a great natural fondness for geography,and a good set of maps may be made a source of unend-ing amusement and instruction for young and old dur-ing the long winter evenings. The best collections ofmaps are made in Germany, and are, perhaps, too ex-pensiye for most people. But, if it can be afforded,Stielers Hand-Atlas should be in every house wherether

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The home library . FiG. 2. Fig. 3. stantial table to support it. The marginal index verygreatly facilitates the finding of the needed word. ON THE BUYING AND OWNING OF BOOKS. 17 After the dictionary should come a really good haye a great natural fondness for geography,and a good set of maps may be made a source of unend-ing amusement and instruction for young and old dur-ing the long winter evenings. The best collections ofmaps are made in Germany, and are, perhaps, too ex-pensiye for most people. But, if it can be afforded,Stielers Hand-Atlas should be in every house wherethere are children, or where the grown folks take an in-telligent interest in the doings of the world. An encyclopaedia is next in importance to an atlas—may even serve as a substitute for it, if you are carefulto get an encyclopaedia with a full set of maps. It maybe said that the maps in both ^^Appletons AmericanCyclopaedia and in the new ^^Encyclopaedia Britannicaare better than those to be found in any of the ord

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