Speaking of packing books, a couple of years ago I wrote an Asylum article on moving a numismatic library, based on my experiences with moving my own library three times. Last weekend I helped one of our subscribers, E. Tomlinson Fort, pack up what he often calls "The Fort Memorial Numismatic Library"

Since he's planning to rearrange his library when he gets into his new house, he cheerfully disregarded all of my anal-retentive box numbering advice. Where I would have said, "books from THIS shelf of THIS bookcase go in THIS box," Tom's philosophy was, "if it fits in THIS box, then it goes in THIS box."

All of which made the task a bit easier, but packing over 80 boxes is never easy. Having visited his new home, I must admit I'm jealous of the spacious room set aside for his office and library. He and his wife are shopping for busts of Roman Emperors to place atop the shelves, in true classical fashion. Tom admits he is not the first to use this decorating scheme for a library-can any of you biblophiles identify the famous source for this plan?