The Furniture of Our Forefathers 
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another leaf with two or more legs on the side 
nearest the spectator.” Incidentally he speaks 
of “ the coffee-pot with a choice of spouts, so 
that the mistress of the house can pour in 
the English or the French way at pleasure.” 
The three parts of the work as yet pub¬ 
lished deal with 
the furniture of 
the earliest col¬ 
onists ; and as 
that furniture 
was nearly all 
brought from 
Europe, and as 
it was made be¬ 
fore mahogany 
came into use, it 
is of a kind 
not generally 
thought of as 
Colonial, much 
of it being Ja¬ 
cobean or Flem¬ 
ish. Some of the 
best pieces illus¬ 
trated seem to 
be only slightly 
related to the 
subject in hand, 
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taken from specimens in European museums. 
These serve to illustrate the kind of furniture 
in use in Europe at the time of the early set¬ 
tlements in America, rather than to show 
things actually brought over by the colonists, 
d'he presentation of the work is excellent. 
Its clear type, 
wide margins 
and well design¬ 
ed page make 
it distinctly at¬ 
tractive; but it 
is because it is a 
storehouse of 
examples of all 
the kinds of fur¬ 
niture that have 
found their way 
to America, or 
have been made 
here from the 
time of the Pil¬ 
grim Fathers to 
the decadence of 
art early in the 
nineteenth cen¬ 
tury that the 
book is of real 
value and of per¬ 
manent interest. 
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