One quiet evening when we had had a specially lovely family dinner, I turned to him and said: “Theodore, I want to give you a _real_ present before you go away. What do you think you would like?” His eyes sparkled like a child who was about to receive a specially nice toy, and he said: “Do you really want to make me a _real_ present, Pussie? I think I should like a pigskin library.” “A pigskin library,” I said, in great astonishment. “What is a pigskin library?” He laughed, and said: “Of course, I must take a good many books; I couldn’t go anywhere, not even into jungles in Africa without a good many books. But also, of course, they are not very likely to last in ordinary bindings, and so I want to have them all bound in pigskin, and I would rather have that present than any other.” The next day he dictated a list of the books which he wished, and the following evening added in his own handwriting a few more. The list is as follows: BOOKS IN THE PIGSKIN LIBRARY Bible. Apocrypha. Borrow: Bible in Spain. Zingali. Lavengro. Wild Wales. The Romany Rye. Shakespeare. Spenser: Faerie Queene. Marlowe. Mahan: Sea Power. Macaulay: History. Essays. Poems. Homer: Iliad. Odyssey. La Chanson de Roland. Nibelungenlied. Carlyle: Frederick the Great. Shelley: Poems. Bacon: Essays. Lowell: Literary Essays. Biglow Papers. Emerson: Poems. Longfellow. Tennyson. Poe: Tales. Poems. Keats. Milton: Paradise Lost (Books I and II). Dante: Inferno (Carlyle’s translation). Holmes: Autocrat. Over the Teacups. Bret Harte: Poems. Tales of the Argonauts. Luck of Roaring Camp. Browning: Selections. Crothers: Gentle Reader. Pardoner’s Wallet. Mark Twain: Huckleberry Finn. Tom Sawyer. The Federalist. Bunyan’s Pilgrim’s Progress. Froissart. Gregorovius: Rome. Percy’s Reliques. Euripides (Murray’s translation): Bacchæ. Hippolytus. Scott: Legend of Montrose. Antiquary. Guy Mannering. Rob Roy. Waverley. Cooper: Two Admirals. Pilot. Dickens: Pickwick. Mutual Friend. Thackeray: Vanity Fair. Pendennis. The famous pigskin library, carried on the back of “burros,” followed him into the jungles of Africa, and was his constant companion at the end of long days during which he had slain the mighty beasts of the tangled forests.