"'Goldsmith's Animated Nature.'"
"Ah! you don't like that. What follows?"
"A long row of 'Buffon,' sir, and then 'Tytler's Universal History.' I haven't read 'Buffon,' and I think Tytler—well—very nice, but tiresome, you know."
"Try the shelf above."
"The first book, sir, is 'Irving's Goldsmith.'"
"Did you ever read it?"
I said Miss Crowen had given it to me to read, last vacation.
"You found it tiresome?"
"Tiresome! why, sir, I think it is the nicest book in the world. I can't help thinking how Goldsmith would love Mr. Irving, if he knew about it! Next, sir, comes a very pretty copy of 'Macaulay's Roman Lays,' and five volumes of his 'Essays.'"
"Did Miss Crowen give you Macaulay to read?"