198 The Art of Landscape Gardening 



nature, as we frequently read in the " Memoires de 

 Sully," etc. 



But the apartment, of all others, which was deemed 

 indispensable in former times, and in which the mag- 

 nificence of the proprietor was greatly displayed, was 

 the Chapel. 



The other apartments were one or more small par- 

 lours, for the use of the ladies and their female attend- 

 ants, in which they carried on their various works of 

 embroidery, etc., and, instead of the present dressing- 

 room and sitting-rooms, which are added to each mod- 

 ern bedroom, there was generally a small closet to each, 

 with perhaps an oriel window for private morning de- 

 votions. 



After thus mentioning the uses of ancient apartments, 

 it is necessary to enumerate those additions which mod- 

 ern life requires, ist. The eating-room, which does not 

 exactly correspond with the ancient hall, because it is no 

 longer the fashion to dine in public; 2d, the library, 

 into which the gallery may sometimes be changed with 

 propriety ; 3d, the drawing-room, or saloon ; 4th, the 

 music-room ; 5th, the billiard-room ; 6th, the conserv- 

 atory attached to the house ; and, lastly, the boudoirs, 

 wardrobes, hot and cold baths, etc., which are all 

 modern appendages, unknown in Queen Elizabeth's 

 days. Under these circumstances, it is difficult to pre- 

 serve the ancient style of a mansion without considerable 

 additions. For this reason we see few specimens of 

 Gothic buildings which have not been mixed and cor- 

 rupted with the architecture of various dates ; and whilst 

 every casual observer may be struck with the incon- 

 gruity of mixing the Grecian with the Gothic styles, 

 yet the nice antiquarian alone discovers, by the contour 

 of a moulding, or the shape of a battlement, that mix- 



