THE HOUSE AND ITS EQUIPMENT. 



67 AT STAXDEX. 



intervening panels, and family badges 

 on the frames of the pictures them 

 selves. One can hardly imagine a 

 more suitable way of displaying 

 family portraits, so markedly superior 

 is it to the usual scattering of them 

 on the walls in gilt frames of diverse 

 types. Where portraits find their 

 natural place elsewhere, however, it is 

 desirable that the library should be 

 adorned with canvases of a more 

 markedly decorative character rather 

 than with those which may be described 

 as easel pictures. In this respect a 

 room designed by Mr. Lutyens for Lady 

 Horner at 16, Lower Berkeley Street, 

 strikes exactly the right note. It is 

 panelled in basswood left untouched 

 from the tool, and on the plain wooden 

 filling above the books on one side of 

 the room are three charming pictures of amorini, painted by Mr. T. M. Kooke. The long panel in the 

 middle shows them playing among the flowers, while in the octagonal panels at the sides they grace 

 fully act as supporters of coats-of-arms. Altogether it would 

 be difficult to find a room treated in a fashion more graceful 

 and scholaily than is this (Figs. 68 and 72). 



The general treatment of a library with respect to its 

 bookshelves is a topic upon which few book-lovers can be got 



to agree. The 

 principal 

 difficulty i s 

 caused by the 

 majestic folios 

 w h i c h the 

 dilettanti of the 

 eighteenth 

 c e n t u r y 

 delighted t o 

 produce. The 

 fondness f o r 

 great books 

 has decreased, 

 but there are 

 still some 

 subj e c t s , 

 notably great 

 works o n 

 architecture, 

 which demand 

 a large page 

 for their illus 

 tration. Some 

 1 e a r n e d 

 societies, too, 

 have the habit 

 of producing at 

 long intervals 

 slim mono- 



graphs printed on sheets of enormous size, which so trouble 

 their recipients with the difficulty of storing them that it is 

 feared they do not always escape an early grave in the waste- 

 Daper basket. A similar problem of storage faces the owners 69. BY MR. LUTYENS. 



68. LADY HORXER S LIBRARY. 



