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dining room occupies a corresponding space on the other side of thetinte-room, with the sideboard facing the entrance from the last menti-oned, and the chimney-piece opposite the windows, which are not at theend, but on one of the longer sides of the apartment. These are by nomeans unimportant circumstances as effecting the general appearanceof a room: nevertheless it may be thought, that they hardly require tobe so minutely pointed out; our excuse, therefore, for adverting to them,must be, that it is not so much for the purpose of superseding, as ofencouraging such examination; and at all events, it is, if not moreuseful, assuredly not more impertinent, than the custom of explainingwhat the most careless inspection- of the plates, must make any oneacquainted with.

One thing which requires no further remark from us, than merelycalling attention to it, is that the same kind of alteration as that recom-mended for the ante-room in No. 11, is equally applicable to the presentdesign.

On the chamber floor, is a spacious landing or upper vestibule,somewhat larger than seems altogether consistent in a house of thiskind, where it is generally a desideratum to have as many sleepingrooms as the plan will admit. It has not, however, been appropriatedas a bed room here, on account of the small staircase which leads upinto the space above it, whence another staircase affords access tothe apartment in the tower, Still if it was desired to obtain an addi-tional bed-chamber, this might be accomplished without any very greatdifficulty, by removing the staircase just mentioned into the space in thecorresponding angle, adjoining the principal one; opening a door betweenthem, facing the entrance into the opposite passage. The space now occu-pied merely as a landing might then be made into a chamber, having adeep bay, and a small dressing room adjoining, formed out of what is nowthe staircase to the tower. The chief difficulty to be got over would beto provide a suitable place for the water closet, which would thus betaken away. Did no better method present itself, that closet might beplaced at one end of the passage off the landing, near the window oropening looking into the staircase; and it might be lighted by a window(besides a ventilator aperture) made next the ceiling, and opening