powdered wigs and hooped petticoats of the last century have not gone out of fashion alone. With those monstrous absurdities of costume we have lost the most of the modes of building and styles of furniture and decoration which formed part of the taste of the time of the Georges. Chinese pagodas, pug dogs, patches, six-inch heels, have happily for our reputation passed away in company. In place of all these half French, half German exotios, the people of England are now again inclined to revert to the more substantial, more real, more comfortable taste of the days before old halls and bay windows had given way to Gallicized saloons-to the days of English hospitality and enjoyment, when the mansion of the country gentleman was reared of solid stone and English oak, instead of Roman cement and American deals. The comfort of a wainscotted chamber is once more recognised and as a natural - consequence of this healthy reaction in the mdte of the country, the ancient decoration of ume-...

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