cause to regret the introduction of new beauties. Without strictly copying either the 

 mosques, or the mausoleums, or the se7-uis, or the hill-forts, or the excavations of the 

 east, the most varied and graceful forms should be selected, with such combinations, 

 or even occasional deviations and improvement, as the gt-ueral character and princi- 

 ples of construction will admit; for which purpose the specimens [see figs. 6 and 7] 

 are submitted for consideration as general hints, rather than as finished designs. 



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A SYMMETRICAL COTTAGE. 



BY AUSTIN & WAKNER, ROCHESTER. 



WnoEVER loves symmetry and the simpler kinds of cottage beautj-, inchiding good 

 jiroportion, tasteful forms, and chasteness of ornament, we think can not but like this 

 design, since it unites all tliese requisites. It is an illustration of a cottage made 

 ornamental at a very trifling expense, and without sacrificing truthfulness to that kind 

 of tasteful simplicity which is the true touchstone of cottage beauty. 



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