FRAGMENT XIII. 



CONCERNING INTERIORS. 





Whatever the style of the exterior may be, the interior of 





house should 



e adapted to the 



of the inhabitants 



whether the house be Grecian or Gothic, large or small, it will 

 require nearly the same rooms for the present habits of life, 



viz. 



dining-room, and two others 



drawing-room, and th 



of which may be called a 



e 



ther the book-room, if small 



or 



th 



e 



library, if large: to these is sometimes added a breakfast-room 

 but of late, especially since the 



central hall 



been 



vestibule 



some degree given up 



these rooms have been opened 



into each other, en suite, by large folding dooi 

 of this enfilade, or visto, through a modern house 

 ally increased by a conservatory at one end, and 

 a large mirror at the opposite end.* 



and th 



e 



fleet 



s occasion- 

 peated by 



to l^ e e lt re "" tW ° M m0re r °° mS ' Whh a " anti - r ° 0m ' * is ^ s better not 



to « the <Ln.ng.oom open en suite . These rooms may be called libraries saloons 

 mushrooms, or breakfast-rooms : but in fact thev f™™ ! . 



g e,er, which is more proper , y ^^ ^^^ ** * * 



wg-room fa no longer retained, excent bv fl*. I USdeSS dnm ' 



former days. P 7 th0Se Wh ° Venerate «* cedar parlour of 





