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it into the ground, instead of allo-«ing it to stand on the 

 surface. In either position, they interrupt that feeling 

 of retirement which is requisite to the full enjoyment of 

 di'essed grounds. Servants^ apartments may be foimed, 

 "with excellent effect, into a sort of wing or minor group 

 of buildings attached to the main body of the house. 

 Besides these relations to objects immediately conti- 

 guous, the aiTangement of the interior of the house 

 should have a reference to the park and the more distant 

 countiT. The drawing-room should always command 

 the finest ^iews wliich are to be seen from the windows, 

 whether these occur in the adjacent or in the external 

 scenery. The \-iews from the hall door are of minor 

 importance, but they ought not to be overlooked or 

 neglected. The house, when felicitously an-anged in 

 these respects, may be said to preside over the beauties 

 of the place. Other considerations, indeed, may be, and 

 often are, taken into account. If warmth rather than 

 beauty is the object aimed at, the dra^ving-room front 

 should look towards the south, whatever may be the 

 scenery in that quarter, and the entrance should be on 

 any of the other sides which may be most sheltered or 

 most convenient. Both the elements of vvaiTiith and 

 beauty, however, may sometimes be secured by placing 

 the family rooms towards the south, and the public rooms 

 towards the east or west, with end windovrs to the south 

 or north, if the finest views happen to be in these 

 directions. 



Conservatory. — Among the various appendages which 

 it is desirable that a mansion-house shoidd possess, 

 none is more important than the conservator}^, which, 

 when happily placed, may be regarded as an extension of 

 the dra-uing-room, or at least, if it is in the vicinity of 



