A VISIT TO THE NEW LAW LIBRARY.
How a Library was Offered to Congress—Mr. King’s Proposal—An Eye
to Theology—The Smithsonian Library Transferred—The Good Deeds
of Peter Force—National Documents—Eliot’s Indian Bible—Literary
Treasures—The Lawyers Want a Library for Themselves—The Finest
Law Library in the World—First Edition of Blackstone—Report of
the Trial of Cagliostro, Rohan and La Motte—Marie Antoinette’s
Diamond Necklace—A Long Life-Service—An Architect Buried
Beneath his own Design—“Underdone Pie-crust”—Reminiscences of
Daniel Webster and the Girard Will, 138