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PARKS AND PLEASURE-GROUNDS. 



opposite course — the squandering of a large sum on an 

 object which in its nature and purpose is designed as 

 a retreat from the throng and bustle of the town, has 

 often defeated the very design intended, and driven 

 many an honest seeker of the true pleasures of rural life 

 again into the labor and turmoil of business, from the 

 mistakes they had made in the outset. — Ed. 



Arrangement of the Interior of the House. — It 

 may be supposed that the improver of a park and 

 pleasure-grounds has nothing to do with the interior 

 of a mansion, and it may be admitted that he is only 

 indirectly concerned with it • still, both its external 

 and internal arrangements are to him matters of con- 

 siderable importance, and come in for a share of his 

 attention, as they give a character, or at least impart a 

 coloring, to the scenery which, he may endeavor to 

 create in the vicinity. We therefore deem it proper to 

 offer a few hints on this subject. Every well-arranged 

 mansion-house/ whether large or small, should have 

 two principal fronts, the entrance front, and the draw- 

 ing-room front. Of the first, the main door and hall 

 form the principal features, as the drawing-room and 

 other public rooms should do of the second. These 

 fronts should be on opposite sides of the house, or if 

 this arrangement cannot be adopted, they should be at 

 right angles to each other, with an end window or two 

 belonging to one of the public rooms opening on the 

 entrance front. The former arrangement is calculated 

 to impart to these rooms a proper degree of seclusion, 

 and to keep them, as it were, within the best portion 

 of the dressed grounds, which should be on the draw- 

 ing-room side of the house. Another portion of the 

 interior not unfrequently interferes with the prh acy of 



