Dr. O. W. Holmes' Favorite Room

Dr. Holmes' favorito room in his Boston home is one in the basement, where, opposite a row of weü filled book shelves, is fitted up a small carpenter shop, with a foot lathe standing near the window. It is possibly the surgical side of him that en joys the clean cutting of tuis delicate instrument as it eourses its way through the wood. The poetic side enjoys the picturesqueness of the carpenter's bench, with its gleaming tools, and there almost any every the genial poet may be f ound doing some little odd job with his hands, while his brain is turning over some delightful fancy that will be written out in the room overhead, by the bow window overlooking the tranquil Charles.