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and will therefore bear to have more room allotted to it, and to be made amore striking portion of the interior, than under different circumstancesit ought to be in a house of the same extent. Besides, although thisplan contains no more sitting rooms than others that have been shown,and which are far less ostentatious as regards their vestibules, theapartments themselves are more spacious, so that if suitably decorated,they would adequately support the display here made. Furthermore,it should be observed, care has been taken that while none of the effectthe plan allowed, is lost, the hall itself is, if any thing, rather smallerthan the adjoining rooms, neither does it exceed them in heigth; there-fore they do not suffer by injudicious contrast in that respect, as is aptto be the case in those mansions where the introductory part of theinterior occupies the height of two floors, thereby making the otherapartments appear, at first, less lofty than they really are.

Notwithstanding that the eye here takes in at the first glance, anextent double the length of either the drawing or dining room, thisspace is so divided by the screen of columns, that the limits of the hallitself are clearly enough defined, and this portion prevented fromappearing extravagant in point of size. At the same time, while thegreater loftiness of the further part, shows expansion upwards beyondthe colonnades, this does not display itself too decidedly, all at once,but rather gradually reveals itself to the visitor as he advances along.The effect of the staircase as beheld through the intervening screen,whose columns would be in half shade, and thereby detach themselvesboldly from the more brilliant back ground, upon which the light wouldfall down from above, would be no less picturesque than architectural.

The recesses with columns, beyond the screen, are by no means theleast effective features in the design, nor is their value lessened by theirarising out of the plan itself, instead of being arbitrarily brought in forthe sake of display. These greatly contribute towards the richness andvariety of the perspective ensemble, and are productive of that com-plexity which, provided it be skilfully managed, is no less desirable inthis style than in the Gothic. Owing to the width of the landing imme-diately above them, these columns w^ould certainly not have much directlight thrown upon them; nevertheless as they would be seen against adeeper shadowed back ground behind them, they would be sufficiently

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