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THE HOUSE AND ITS EQUIPMENT. 



furniture which 

 was so unhomelike 

 began to be replaced 

 bv oddments of 

 otnei ages, often 

 incongruous in 

 their n e w sur 

 roundings, and not 

 at all fitting to 

 them or their new 

 owner. But this is 

 all of yesterday ; 

 tlu leaven works, 

 and every day the 

 movement gains 

 strength. T here 

 are many archi 

 tects working now 

 &amp;lt;&amp;gt;r, sensible lines, 

 with almost a real 

 tradition of build 

 ing. T hat the y 

 aiv able to do so 

 is a tribute to the 

 men like Shaw, 

 Devey and Webb, 

 who so manfully 

 battled against the 

 nineteenth century 

 saying, already 

 quoted, that thev 

 varietv of \va\&amp;gt; 



22. DINING-ROOM AT 1-RlNTON-oN-SHA, HKS1GNEU IJY .MR. VOYSKY. 



reversed its judgment. So the wise men bull 

 some of which are illustrated here ; but alwavs it 



23. SIDEBOARD AT DOLOBRAN, DESIGNED BY MR. CURTIS GREEN. 



d houses now, and furnish them in a 

 must be remembered that architectural 

 fashions, to use a 

 modern word, will 

 prove but ephemeral 

 unless they represent 

 and grow out of the 

 ideals of the people. 



There is a 

 tendency in modern 

 criticism of matters 

 artistic, and it would 

 seem a wholly wise 

 one, to trace cause 

 and effect in the 

 relation of artist r and 

 client and in their 

 joint production. If 

 there was any real 

 recognition in the 

 nineteenth century of 

 the labourings which 

 preceded the birth of 

 a work of art, it took 

 the form only of a 

 feeling that matters 

 artistic were quite 

 incomprehensible and 

 arrived at their 

 maturity in some 

 haphazard way. This 



