in summer, an agreeable vista effect is produced, and a free circulation of air is 

 provided for. The upper end of the hall is traversed by a light, ornamental, open, 

 arched screen, which is introduced so as to give a definite character to a passage- 

 way, or vestibule, as shown on the plan. Beyond this arched screen is an entrance, 

 with sliding-doors, to the library, and at the opposite end of the latter room is a 

 large, square bay-window, with open screen-work and seat in connection with it. 

 Thus another extensive vista is obtained, in summer evenings, through the house 

 in this direction, and when the doors are open, any one sitting in the library bay 

 can see the river view framed, as it were, in the outer arch of the porch. A little 

 boudoir, or ladies' morning-room, with a private veranda entirely shaded during 

 the whole of the forenoon, is planned close to this library and to the drawing- 

 room, and a similar space is inclosed on the opposite side of the house for water- 

 closet and pantry, which has a lift in connection with the floor below. It will 

 thus be seen, by an inspection of the plan, that it would hardly be possible to 

 have a more airy and open arrangement for summer ; for, standing in the hall 

 when the rooms are thrown open, one can see clear through the house, north, 

 south, east, and west ; and the porch, hall, vestibule, library, dining-room, draw- 

 ing-room, and veranda, are converted, as it were, into one connected apartment. 

 All idea of the moderate size of the single-rooms (the largest of which is but 18 

 by 20), is thus done away with, and the house necessarily seems roomy, open, and 

 ample in its accommodation. 



" So much for the summer arrangement. In winter, on the other hand, the 

 first step should be to inclose the arches of the porch with glazed frames, and the 

 next, to close the sliding doors for the season, entering, in future, each of the 

 separate rooms from the ordinary-sized doors which are provided to each of^the 

 principal apartments for this purpose ; the library being approached through a 

 l30ok-case door, already illustrated and described in the opening chapter. The 

 furnace may then be started, and the house will be found to be a warm winter 

 house, suited to a severe climate. All the thorough draughts are shut off, and 

 the separate rooms are small, readily warmed, and easy of access from the cham- 

 bers. The bedroom floor in this house contains an upper hall, lighted by a sky- 

 light, four full-sized bedrooms, a dressing-room, and a bath-room, with water-closet. 

 The attic contains two spare bedrooms, shut off entirely from the apartments for 

 domestics, on the same floor, and it also provides an open hall, two servants' bed- 

 rooms, a garret, and lumber-room. 



" In the basement will be found the kitchen, wash-room, milk-room, furnace- 

 room, and cellars. The carpenter's and mason's contracts for this house were 

 taken at $7,230, and the painter's, and plumber's, and decorator's accounts, with 

 some ornamental ceilings, and other carpenter's work inside the house, not con- 

 templated in the original contract, made the amount expended, and on which five 

 per cent, (architect's commission) was charged, $9,326 51." 



Dedgnfor a partially inclosed Veranda The work is very prettily embellished 



with vignettes and tail-pieces appropriate to the topics discussed. We do not 

 know that we can select a better one than the following : — 



" The vignette shows a design for partially inclosing a veranda which was 

 made for J. J. Monell, Esq. The country house to which it belongs is planned 

 on a side hill overlooking a picturesque glen ; and the kitchen in the basement 

 being, in consequence, entirely out of ground in the rear facing the garden, these 

 offices were somewhat too freely exposed to view from the ornamental grounds in 

 the vicinity of the house. The simple plan here sketched was, therefore, made and 

 (1 out ; and as the vines (already grown over the old supporting-posts) 

 to the new trellis-work, and showed to even better advantage than befor 



