Their variety indicated a mind of liberal intelligence.

Works of history and biography predominated, but poetry and fiction were also represented on the shelves.

Odd volumes of expensive publications looked forth plaintively here and there, and many periodical issues stood unbound.
Another case, a small one with glass doors, contained literature of another order--some thirty volumes which had belonged to Gilbert's father, and were now his mother's peculiar study.

They were translations of sundry works of Swedenborg, and productions put forth by the Church of the New Jerusalem.

Mrs.Grail was a member of that church.