Our maternal great-great-grandmothers must have had little leisure to spare from the duties that occupied their time. Yet many of them had still-rooms where they not only compounded the medicaments whereby many a family was raised from infancy, but where they made extracts and essences as well. They made, too, from the flowers and herbs that grew in their gardens, pomander-balls, which were used instead of vinaigrettes, the outer case being of silver or gold, and often as large as an orange. Those whose stock of trinkets did not boast one of these metal cases used the rind of an orange, the inside being carefully extracted, and a sponge with vinegar and spices being inserted in its place. Rose-balls made of leaves beaten to pulp, mixed with sweet spices, and rolled into a ball, soon became hard, resembling the rosaries made in the south of France. When held in the hand they became very fragrant from its warmth. Simpler than any of these was a rosy apple stuck full of cloves and giving out a fragrance years after the apple had lost all appearance or consistency of being a fruit, and awakening in the mind an image of her who made it in some quiet garden long ago. Like an antique spice-ball, all this old furniture that we have passed in review has an aroma of its own compounded by the hand that built it, the person that owned it, and the scenes that it has lived through. Many a sober old chair could discourse of experiences ranging from grave to gay, from lively to severe, and every one of these antiques, whether a treasured heirloom or a reclaimed derelict, has a charm that is not easily excelled. INDEX. "A Brief Description of New York", 35 Adam Brothers, 49, 68, 73, 74, 75, 80, 85 Adam, Robert, 55, 73, 74, 75, 175, James 73, 74 Addison, 56 Advertisements, 124, 125, 129, 137, 138, 144, 205, 214, 215, 228 Albany, City of, 22, 28, 29, 45 Albany Historical Society, 29, 37, 105, 135, 145, 194 Allyn, Alexander, 32 Almacks, 64 Amboise, 148 Amboyna wood, 222 Amelia Sophia, Princess, 64 André, Major, 83 "Annals of New York," Watson, 112 Anne of Austria, 149 Antiquarian Society, Concord, Mass., 114 Aubusson, 154, 158 Auction Sales, 67, 68 Ball-and-Claw, 53, 66, 70, 119, 123, 229, 230 Bancker, Gerard, 134 Bank of England, 11 Barjeer, 81 Baroque, 4 Bartolozzi, 74 Bass viol, 192, 193 Battle Abbey, 68 Bayard, Colonel and Mrs., 107 "Bear's Paw", 53, 54 Beaufait, 111 Beaumanor Park, 5 Beauvais, 156, 158, 159 Beaver skins, 38 Beds: 7, 38, 114, 115, 116, 118, 119, 126, 127, 133, 137, 138, 139, 169, 170, 223, 224 Canopy, 72 Chinese, 72 Dome, 72 Elizabethan, 8 English, 137 Field, 72, 137, 138 French, 137, 139 Flock, 27 Folding, 76 Gothic, 72 High four post, 72, 137 Low four post, 137, 139 Press, 81 Sofa, 72, 86 Summer, 86 Tent, 72 Bed-curtains, 9, 114, 137, 138, 139, 223