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rooms on that front should be the highest finished and 

 furnished, and devoted to the leisure hours of the 

 family, to purposes of hospitality and social inter- 

 course. Such may, under fitting circumstances, be 

 made the entrance front, when another does not render 

 the approach more convenient. All the show and 

 luxury of the exterior finish should here be displayed ; 

 as, commanding the best and most extended view over 

 other objects, it is the most prominent and pleasing 

 subject of contemplation from the same objects in turn. 

 The house should show, from any point of view at 

 which it is seen, that it has a principal front, or another 

 front, if it really be so ; yet that this other be subordi- 

 nate to the main one, for it is scarcely to be supposed 

 that any one house can command two opposite fronts, 

 or even a side one, in addition, of equal interest or 

 beauty. It should indicate, also, that it has one or 

 more sides shut off from the general view, which are 

 appropriated to family rooms, where the inmates may 

 be retired ; and, as a matter of course, domestic con- 

 venience demands that there be servants' rooms, 

 kitchen, scullery, laundry, wood-house, and other appen- 

 dages, forming a continuous range of building in the 

 rear, which should be quite shut ofT from familiar con- 

 tact with the better and more finished, and protected 

 by shrubbery, trees, fences, and perhaps additional 

 buildings, accommodating the stable and other re- 

 quirements. These, in contiguity with the kitchen and 

 fruit-gardens, placed in appropriate position and con- 

 nection with the main dwelling, compose a picture of 

 completeness on which the eye can rest with entire 

 satisfaction. 



There being a sufficiency of ground, the house 



