SECTION IV.

“ If a man have several dwellings, he may sort them so that what he wanteth in one he mayfind in the other. Lucullus answered Pompey well, who, when he saw his stately galleriesand rooms large and lightsome in one of his houses, said, Surely, an excellent place forsummer, but how do you do in the winter ? Lucullus answered, Why, do you not think me aswise as some fowl are, that ever change their abode towards the winter ?”— Lord Bacon .

Since it is become fashionable with the English gentry to reside at theircountry-houses through the winter,* and in London during the “ dog-days,” rooms which are occupied by daylight should be so disposed asto secure to them every ray of sunshine. Upon this principle, PlateNo. XXII. (®ruuntl IDIait) is arranged. The drawing-room to the south,for warmth and cheerfulness; the library to the east, as recommended

* In the reign of Elizabeth, and several reigns later, it was the fashion to reside in London during the winter. A letter from Fleetwoode, the recorder, to the Earl of Derby, dated“ New-yere’s daye, 1589,” published in Lodge’s Illustrations, says, “ The gentlemen of NorfF.and Suffolk were comaunded to depte. from London before Xtemmas, and repaire to theircountries, and there to keep hospitalitie among their neighbors.”

Brathwait, a writer of James the First ’s time, “ detests that effeminacy of the most, thatburne out day and night in their beds, and by the fire-side, in trifles, gaming, or courtingtheir yellow mistresses all the winter in a city; appearing but as cuckoos in the spring, onetime of the year to their countrey and their tenants, leaving the care of keeping good houses atChristmas to the honest yeomen.” And Peacham, in his “ Compleat Gentleman,” complainingof the gentry residing so much in London , declares that “ Hospitality, which was once a reliqueof gentry, and a knowne cognizance of all ancient houses, hath lost her title through discon-tinuance : and great houses which were at first founded to relieve the poore, and such needfullpassengers as travelled by them, are now of no use but only as waymarkes to direct them.