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the drawing-room front will receive the chief attention 

 of the architect. In some of the best-laid-out villa 

 residences that we have seen, the main door faces an 

 adjacent boundary wall of considerable height, aud is 

 separated from it merely by a graveled court of suffi- 

 cient extent to afford room for the turning of a carriage. 

 In other well constructed places this court is wanting, 

 and its place is occupied with flower-beds and shrub- 

 beries, with a covered way communicating with the 

 main door at one end, and with the entrance-gate in 

 the boundary wall at the other. Of course, in this 

 arrangement, carriages are left on the outside alto- 

 gether. A small door at the end of the house opening 

 on a back court or road between the kitchen and stable- 

 offices is used when it is needful to bring a carriage 

 close to the house. A kitchen-court should be formed 

 at one end or side of the house ; and if this is the only 

 court that is necessary, and the house is near enough 

 to the boundary, it may be brought out to the external 

 wall. When stables are required, they may be placed 

 in connection with the kitchen- court, or if there be 

 room and access, they may be built at a little distance 

 along the boundary wall, with a separate entrance, for 

 example, in a corner of the property. The respective 

 positions of these courts must vary with that of the 

 house itself in reference to the other parts of the resi- 

 dence ; but they should never occupy more than one 

 end or side of the house, and should leave the remain- 

 der of it to be surrounded by the ornamental grounds. 

 To these apparently minor points we solicit the reader's 

 earnest attention, as success in these arrangements, 

 which are very apt to be overlooked at first, has a most 

 material effect on the general result. 



