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ever we cannot afford to quarrel with this method, 
for it has many counter advantages. 
The last method of enclosing buildings referred to 
is by placing the boards upright and covering the joints 
with projecting slips of wood. This method is quite 
true to construction ; the effect however thus produced 
is far from pleasing ; besides it conveys the idea of 
a temporary style of building ; however, this method of 
upright treatment may possibly in architectural hands be 
made much more of, if worked up into artistic form. 
There is another external feature in many of our 
houses, though rather of a detailed character, and one 
peculiarly well adapted to our climate, the jalousied 
coolers attached to many of our windows, or externally 
taking the possession of them. Some art attention has 
been paid of late to these both useful and ornamental 
window adjuncts, together with their wooden brackets 
or under supports and upper crestings. Where the sides 
of these coolers, of spandril form, have been well pierced 
with ornamental work, the effect is most pleasing, and 
the art idea is quite correct. The only desideratum for 
these spandrils is to have a well designed pattern, say 
of a flower stem and leaves, somewhat conventionalized, 
or some good scroll or other pattern carefully conceived 
and cleanly cut. These side spandrils, more than any 
other part of the cooler, should have a little art skill bes- 
towed upon them, since from a distance they strike the 
eye. One of the most pleasing and successful art treat- 
ments of the window coolers is over the Argosy Office, 
in Water-Street. 
Leaving for further consideration other constructions 
of domestic use where art too must have its claim, we 
