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. Books proved to be scarce on the island. One official gentleman from Lisbon, quite an accomplished man, who spoke French fluently and English tolerably, had some five hundred books, chiefly in the former tongue, including seventy-two volumes of Balzac. His daughter, a young lady of fifteen, more accomplished than most of the belles of the island, showed me her little library of books in French and Portuguese, including three English volumes, an odd selection,--The Vicar of Wakefield, Gregory's Legacy to his daughters, and Fielding's Life of Jonathan wild. But, indeed, her supply of modern Portuguese literature was almost as scanty (there is so very little of it), and we heard of a gentleman's studying French in order to have something to read, which seemed the last stage in national decay. Perhaps we were still more startled by the unexpected literary criticisms of a young lady from St. Michael, English on the father's side, but still Roman Catholic, who had just read the N