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<jats:p>Whoever has travelled in the New England States will remember, in some cool village, the large farmhouse, with its clean-swept grassy yard … In the family “keeping-room,” as it is termed, he will remember the staid, respectable old bookcase, with its glass doors, where Rollin's History, Milton's Paradise Lost, Bunyan's Pilgrim's Progress, and Scott's Family Bible, stand side by side in decorous order, with multitudes of other books, equally solemn and respectable.</jats:p><jats:p><jats:disp-quote><jats:p>Harriet Beecher Stowe,<jats:italic>Uncle Tom's Cabin</jats:italic>(Boston, MA, 1852), 226</jats:p></jats:disp-quote></jats:p>