9. "The Holy Cross and Other Tales," Stone & Kimball, Cambridge, 1893. I have a miscellaneous collection of books, numbering 3,500, and I am fond of the quaint and curious in every line. I am very fond of dogs, birds, and all small pets--a passion not approved by my wife. My favorite flower is the carnation, and I adore dolls. My favorite hymn is "Bounding Billows." My favorites in fiction are Hawthorne's "Scarlet Letter," "Don Quixote," and "Pilgrim's Progress." I greatly love Hans Andersen's "Tales," and I am deeply interested in folk-lore and fairy-tales. I believe in ghosts, in witches, and in fairies. I should like to own a big astronomical telescope and a twenty-four-tune music-box. My heroes in history are Martin Luther, Mademoiselle Lamballe, Abraham Lincoln; my favorite poems are Körner's "Battle Prayer," Wordsworth's "We are Seven," Newman's "Lead, Kindly Light," Luther's "Hymn," Schiller's "The Diver," Horace's "Fons Bandusiae," and Burns's "Cotter's Saturday Night." I dislike Dante and Byron. I should like to have known Jeremiah, the prophet, old man Poggio, Walter Scott, Bonaparte, Hawthorne, Mademoiselle Sontag, Sir John Herschel, Hans Andersen. My favorite actor is Henry Irving; actress, Mademoiselle Modjeska. I dislike "politics," so called. I should like to have the privilege of voting extended to women. I favor a system of pensions for noble services in literature, art, science, etc. I approve of compulsory education. If I had my way, I should make the abuse of horses, dogs, and cattle, a penal offence; I should abolish all dog laws and dog catchers, and I would punish severely everybody who caught and caged birds. I dislike all exercise, and play all games indifferently. I love to read in bed. I believe in churches and schools; I hate wars, armies, soldiers, guns, and fireworks. I like music (limited). I have been a great theatre-goer. I enjoy the society of doctors and clergymen. My favorite color is red. I do not care particularly for sculpture or for paintings; I try not to become interested in them, for the reason that if I were to cultivate a taste for them I should presently become hopelessly bankrupt. I am extravagantly fond of perfumes. I am a poor diner, and I drink no wine or spirits of any kind; I do not smoke tobacco. I dislike crowds, and I abominate functions. I am six feet in height, am of spare build, weigh 160 pounds, and have shocking taste in dress. But I like to have well-dressed people about me. My eyes are blue, my complexion pale, my face is shaven, and I incline to baldness. It is only when I look and see how young, and fair, and sweet my wife is that I have a good opinion of myself.