His mother, his friends, his books--these were Smith's three great joys. He had a library of about 3000 volumes, as varied a collection in point of subject-matter as it would be possible to find. Professor Shield Nicholson, who saw a large portion of it, says: "I was most struck by the large number of books of travel and of poetry, of some of which there were more than one edition, and occasionally _editions de luxe_. I had hoped to find marginal notes or references which might have thrown light on the authorities of some passages in the _Wealth of Nations_ (for Smith gives no references), but even the ingenious oft-quoted author of the _Tracts on the Corn Laws_ has escaped without a mark. At the same time pamphlets have been carefully bound together and indexes prefixed in Smith's own writing."[284] Mr. James Bonar has been able to collect a list of probably two-thirds of Smith's books--about 1000 books, or 2200 volumes.[285] Nearly a third of the whole are in French, another third in Latin, Greek, and Italian, and a little more than a third in English. According to Mr. Bonar's analysis, a fifth of them were on Literature and Art; a fifth were Latin and Greek classics; a fifth on Law, Politics, and Biography; a fifth on Political Economy and History; and the remaining fifth on Science and Philosophy. One cannot help remarking, as an indication of the economist's tastes, the almost complete absence of works in theology and prose fiction. Hume's _Dialogues on Natural Religion_ and Pascal's _Pensees_ belong as much to philosophy as theology; Jeremy Taylor's _Antiquitates Christianae_, Father Paul Sarpi's _History of the Council of Trent_, and Ruchat's _Histoire de la Reformation de la Suisse_ belong as much to history; and except these the only representatives of theology on Smith's shelves were the English Bible, Watson's edition, 1722--probably his parents' family Bible--a French translation of the Koran, and Van Maestricht's _Theologia_. The only sermons, except those of Massillon in French, are the _Sermons of Mr. Yorick_. Those sermons, however, were the only representative of Sterne. Goldsmith was represented by his poems, but not by his fiction; and Defoe, Fielding, Richardson, and Smollett were not represented at all. One or two French novels were there, but except Gulliver, which came in with the complete edition of Swift's works in 1784, the only English novel Smith seems to have possessed was the _Man of the World_, by his friend Henry Mackenzie. It is perhaps stranger that he ignored the novel than that he ignored theology, for the novel was then a very rising and popular literary form, and Smith began life as a professed literary critic. His mind seems to have been too positive to care much for tales. On the other hand, of the Greek and Latin classics he not unfrequently had several different editions. He had eight, for example, of _Horace_, who seems to have been an especial favourite.