Ogilby's _Virgil_. Dryden's _Juvenal_. _Cassandra._ _Cleopatra._ _Astraea._ Sir Isaac Newton's works. _The Grand Cyrus_, with a pin stuck in one of the middle leaves. Pembroke's _Arcadia_. Locke of _Human Understanding_; with a paper of patches in it. A spelling-book. A dictionary for the explanation of hard words. Sherlock upon Death. _The Fifteen Comforts of Matrimony._ Sir William Temple's Essays. Father Malebranche's _Search after Truth_, translated into English. A book of Novels. _The Academy of Compliments._ Culpepper's _Midwifery_. _The Ladies' Calling._ Tales in Verse by Dr. D'Urfey: bound in red leather, gilt on the back, and doubled down in several places. All the Classic authors, in wood. A set of Elzevirs by the same hand. _Clelia_: which opened of itself in the place that describes two lovers in a bower. Baker's _Chronicle_. _Advice to a Daughter._ _The New Atlantis_, with a key to it. Mr. Steele's _Christian Hero_. A Prayer-book: with a bottle of Hungary water by the side of it. Dr. Sacheverell's Speech. Fielding's Trial. Seneca's _Morals_. Taylor's _Holy Living and Dying_. La Ferte's _Instructions for Country-dances_. I was taking a catalogue in my pocket-book of these and several other authors, when Leonora entered.--J. ADDISON. _Spectator_, 37. WOMEN'S WANT Except some professed scholars, I have often observed that women in general read much more than men; but, for want of a plan, a method, a fixed object, their reading is of little benefit to themselves, or others.--E. GIBBON. _Autobiography._ BOOKS FOR A LADY'S LIBRARY Convivae prope dissentire videntur, Poscentes vario multum diversa palato. Quid dem? quid non dem? HOR.