THE NEW EDEN. 21 



The heating apparatus is an anthracite "base-burner," 

 which has served me faithfully for a dozen winters. At 

 small expense, and with little attention, it keeps a mod- 

 erate and steady heat night and day, without a moment's 

 intermission, from December to May. It can be regu- 

 lated by dampers and drafts to a higher or lower point of 

 heat, and there it holds for many hours, until the draft 

 is changed. 



Shall I tell you one of my conceits ? This stove has 

 seemed to me to be the type of a most excellent character 

 for ourselves steady-going and ever faithful, regulated 

 by principle rather than impulse, never cold, and never 

 over-hot, but always giving forth a useful heat from a 

 warm heart. Of course, I consider a stove of such quali- 

 ties an indispensable and most worthy servant in my lit- 

 tle Eden. 



The "embowered study," as you call it, is on the sec- 

 ond floor, and extends over the parlor below, and also, 

 in its front half, over the lower hall. The part over the 

 hall, instead of being a room by itself, as in many houses, 

 takes the form of an alcove, T\hich opens into the main 

 part under a corniced arch extending across its entire 

 width. The three front windows have an exposure a 

 little south of west not the best, you see ; but they 

 have one pane of glass to each sash, and reach nearly to 

 the ceiling, which is eleven feet high, and this is some 

 compensation. The room is thus well opened to the sky, 

 and has a great abundance of light. 



As the rear of the room is given up to books, I have to 

 describe only these front windows, and will take them in 

 order, beginning at the left. Perhaps the accompanying 

 sketches (figures 1 to 5), despite their unavoidable im- 

 perfections, may afford some aid to my words and your 

 imagination. 



Let us first look at window number one, the sketch of 

 which a fancy of the publishers has caused to be used as 



