GENERAL IMPROVEMENT. 



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a moderate size, frequently suffer much from 

 the mode of attaching the offices to them ; as 

 when they are brought on a line with the 

 front of the house, — or, as I have seen, even 

 projected before it, — in such case the windows 

 of the offices on the one front command the 

 pleasure ground, and those on the other over- 

 look the approach : on both they materially 

 injure the effect of the main building by 

 excluding the return angles, and bringing the 

 whole mass into one extended flat line. The 

 expedient of shrubbing out the offices, as it 

 is termed, is no improvement ; as that will 

 not restore the return angles of the main 

 building, at the same time that it forces the 

 walk into the sight of the windows, from 

 which it should be concealed. 



The propriety of Sir Uvedale Price's re- 

 marks upon this subject will amply apologise 

 for my transcribing them in this place : — 



" Much of the naked solitary appearance 

 " of houses is owing to the practice of totally 

 " concealing, nay, of sometimes burying all 

 " the offices under ground, and that by way 

 " of giving consequence to the mansion ; but, 

 " though exceptions may arise from parti- 

 " cular situations and circumstances, yet, in 



