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must necessarily to some extent control these important factors. While in 

 the space at my disposal I have been unable to deal with these matters in 

 detail, I have endeavoured to indicate a few guiding principles. 



In conclusion, it may be well for me to anticipate certain criticisms by 

 stating that I profess no expert knowledge in the arts of literature or illus- 

 tration. It is my business to design houses and their appointments, and 

 the work of preparing this book has been done in leisure moments snatched 

 from the time which must be devoted to the labours of the architect. It is 

 my hope that this may afford some excuse for the manifold shortcomings 

 of a work which necessarily constitutes a very limited and inadequate treat- 

 ment of a subject of such illimitable scope. 



