That part of the library which was designed for the reception of plays and pamphlets, and other loose papers, was enclosed in a kind of square, consisting of one of the (15) prettiest grotesque works that ever I saw, and made up of scaramouches, lions, monkeys, mandarins, trees, shells, and a thousand other odd figures in china ware. In the midst of the room was a little japan table, with a quire of gilt paper upon it, and on the paper a silver snuff box (20) made in the shape of a little book. I found there were several other counterfeit books upon the upper shelves, which were carved in wood, and served only to fill up the number, like fagots[31] in the muster of a regiment. I was wonderfully pleased with such a mixed kind of furniture (25) as seemed very suitable both to the lady and the scholar, and did not know, at first, whether I should fancy myself in a grotto or in a library. [31] "A person formerly hired to take the place of another at the muster of a military company, or to hide deficiency in its number when it was not full."--_Century Dictionary_. Upon my looking into the books, I found there were some few which the lady had bought for her own use; but that most of them had been got together, either because (71: 5) she had heard them praised, or because she had seen the authors of them. Among several that I examined, I very well remember these that follow: Ogilby's _Virgil_. Dryden's _Juvenal_. (10) _Cassandra_. _Cleopatra_. _Astraea_. Sir Isaac Newton's Works. _The Grand Cyrus_, with a pin stuck in one of the (15) middle leaves. Pembroke's _Arcadia_. Locke of _Human Understanding_, with a paper of patches in it. A spelling book. (20) 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 (25) into English. A book of novels. _The Academy of Compliments_. Culpepper's _Midwifery_. _The Ladies' Calling_. _Tales in Verse_, by Mr. 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. (72: 5) _Clelia_, which opened of itself in the place that describes two lovers in a bower. Baker's _Chronicle_. _Advice to a Daughter_. _The New Atalantis_, with a key to it. (10) 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. (15) Seneca's _Morals_. Taylor's _Holy Living and Dying_. La Ferte's _Instructions for Country Dances_.