. New York state's prominent and progressive men;. ilarity among experts. Some yearsago he started in to breed and own this type of dog, the first manin America to take them up. Next to his dogs and his horses. Colonel Ruppert enjoys yacht-ing. His yacht Albatross is one hundred and fourteen feet overall, ninety-five in the water, a twenty-mile craft, with very httlefree-board, and looking much larger than she actually is. Latest of all this young clubmans enthusiasms is his libraryand his bindings. He has now some fifteen hundred volumes,purchased at a cost of many thousands of dollars. These
. New York state's prominent and progressive men;. ilarity among experts. Some yearsago he started in to breed and own this type of dog, the first manin America to take them up. Next to his dogs and his horses. Colonel Ruppert enjoys yacht-ing. His yacht Albatross is one hundred and fourteen feet overall, ninety-five in the water, a twenty-mile craft, with very httlefree-board, and looking much larger than she actually is. Latest of all this young clubmans enthusiasms is his libraryand his bindings. He has now some fifteen hundred volumes,purchased at a cost of many thousands of dollars. These booksare expensive sets, especially bound in his own private bindingsof crushed levant, green and red. Modern literature and theEnglish classics have the greatest charm for him, two sets of thislibraiy, for example, being the Waverley Novels (forty-eight vol-umes), of an edition of which there are only twenty-four sets inthe country, and De Foes works, of which there are but ten likesets. The library includes only special editions of this
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