an ante-room between the drawing and dining rooms ; so that with theaddition of the small boudoir adjoining the library, there are six roomsimmediately communicating with each other, so arranged as to producefar greater variety than they would do if they were all placed in astraight line. It should also be remarked, that in addition to theseapartments, there is a handsome billiard room next the entrance hall.A separate corridor for servants was not judged necessary, as by meansof the various staircases communicating with the basement, the domes-tics can have access to the different parts of this floor without making athoroughfare of the gallery. Otherwise had such corridor been thoughtrequisite, it might easily have been carried along one side of the gallery,so as to afford a direct passage from one wing to the other on that sideof [the building; and as the gallery is lighted from above, a similarcorridor might have been formed on the bed-chamber floor.

The offices, together with sleeping rooms for the servants, are in thebasement, yet, as may be seen by the view of the house, partly aboveground. One advantage, if no other, gained by this system, is that itraises the floor above them, and therefore contributes to the cheerfulnessof the principal rooms, which being thus a little elevated, enjoy a betterprospect. Many, we are aware, object to offices being at all sunkbelow the house in a country residence, where there is generally amplespace for building them above ground, either as wings to the houseitself or otherwise. Undoubtedly such is the case, but there are manyother things to be considered besides the facility of providing site forthem. If erected as wings, unless consistent in their architecture withthe rest of the design, they will rather impair than improve thegeneral effect, giving to the ensemble, the appearance of being parsimo-niously stinted, and more formal than uniform. In the next place,when thus situated, the offices in one wing are at an inconvenient distancefrom those in the other. Besides which, they must more or less inter-cept the view from the apartments in the main building. If again, theoffices be all placed together ; attached to the house, yet still so situatedas to be easily screened from sight, and consequently so as to be erectedwithout any pretension to architecture; still if the establishment belarge, they must occupy nearly as much ground as the house itself; thismode therefore is too much like building two separate houses, in order