Of that Glasgow home and of her own home later the walls of the log cottage were eloquent.
The character giving bit of furniture, however, in the living room was a book-case that stood in a corner.

Its beautiful inlaid cabinet work would in itself have attracted attention, but not the case but the books were its distinction.

The great English poets were represented there in serviceable bindings showing signs of use, Shakespeare, Wordsworth, Coleridge, Browning, Keats, and with them in various editions, Burns.
Beside the poets Robert Louis had a place, and Sir Walter, as well as Kipling and Meredith and other moderns.

But on the shelf that showed most wear were to be found the standard works of economists of different schools from the great Adam Smith to Marx and the lot of his imitators and disciples.

This was Malcolm's book-case.