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tucked away in some by-corner where the family and 

 its guests must apparently sneak around some project- 

 ing angle into it for fear of observation. In the other, 

 every thing else is sacrificed to a showy entrance-door 

 with its flashy dressings, and a splendid approach. 

 The architect of true taste will do neither. He will 

 take a medium course, and show that his dwelling has 

 both an approach and a front door, and give his parlors 

 and principal rooms a good position to command, each 

 in their own character, a proper view of the most eli- 

 gible points belonging to them. Climate must some- 

 what govern in all these arrangements, and as our au- 

 thor writes for the humid, cloudy skies of Britain, we 

 differ somewhat from his recommendation of throwing 

 the main entrance-door into a " secondary position in 

 relation to the grounds and the public rooms." In 

 American climates the principal door should be seen 

 at once by every one who approaches the house, and 

 the approach to it be bold and unmistakable. A 

 veranda to a villa we would always have, let the style 

 of building be what it may ; and this veranda should 

 not, unless for some extraordinary purpose, such as 

 commanding a surpassingly fine view, or sheltering 

 some exposed part of the house, be carried above the 

 first story. It should be broad, never less than ten 

 feet for a substantial villa, and in some cases twelve. 

 A narrow, pinched veranda is a pretense only, and 

 should never be built. For all useful objects and ap- 

 pearance, the house is better without it. 



Stables, and stable-yards, and the approaches lead- 

 ing to them, should be thrown as far from the house 

 as due convenience, and the area of the grounds will 

 admit. Stables breed innumerable flies in hot weather, 



