PHILLIPS BROOKS'S BOOKS AND EMERSON'S MENTAL MIST No one who called at Phillips Brooks's house was ever told that the master of the house was out when he was in.

That was a rule laid down by Doctor Brooks: a maid was not to perjure herself for her master's comfort or convenience.

Therefore, when Edward was told that Doctor Brooks was out, he knew he was out.

The boy waited, and as he waited he had a chance to look around the library and into the books.

The rector's faithful housekeeper said he might when he repeated what Wendell Phillips had told him of the interest that was to be found in her master's books.