Should have a rich Turkey carpet, and the furniture should be of a handsome and stately character, of carved oak or rosewood. Above the bookshelves should be busts of distinguished authors, and in the intervals between them Mercuries (or tall stands) with the same. Over the mantelpiece a good picture; on the chimney-piece itself a marble or bronze timepiece; bronze ornaments; a centre table, two writing tables with small drawers, duly fitted up with inkstand, pens, blotting-books, tapers, letter-weighers, paper weights; a Postal Directory on one, a Peerage on the other, a barrel of string, large scissors, paper-knives, penknives; globes and maps between the bookshelves; a portfolio, stand for choice engravings;. a cabinet for gems of art; general colouring grave and warm.

The Schoolroom

The schoolroom should, if possible, receive the morning sun, which will be found a great enlivener of youthful intellects. It should be a nicely furnished room; the apartment in which early tastes and dispositions, as well as intellects, are cultivated, should not be dull, cheerless, ugly and depressing. Where expense is no object, good pictures and thoroughly well-furnished bookshelves will be found great adjuncts to education; a terrestrial and celestial globe, an easel or two as required, a really good piano, a library-table with drawers, two inkstands and other writing materials, slates, a small round work-table, one easy-chair or a sofa, and light cane-bottomed chairs for the elder pupils, high-backed chairs and low chairs for the little ones are required. Under the bookshelves should be cupboards to hold slates, copy and exercise books, and drawing materials; on a stand a portfolio for drawings. Atlases must be provided, and a Canterbury for music.

The Nurseries

The Nurseiy should face either south or east. It is cruel to condemn infants to north rooms, or underground rooms; both are unhealthy abodes for them. Let the mother remember that the future health of her offspring depends greatly on the admission of air and light to their apartments. Nursery walls should be painted and varnished, that they may be easily and often washed down. The floor is best covered with a carpet which may be taken up daily in winter; in summer it is better to have no carpet, but a few soft sheep's-wool mats on the floor. No curtains should be allowed in summer; the room should be made to look very pretty, with coloured prints on the walls of pleasant and cheerful subjects - appropriate emblazoned texts will also charm the little people. Their tastes may be judiciously cultivated even in infancy. Low chairs and tables as well as high ones, a closet for toys, and a shelf for books are required.

The night Nursery should be well ventilated, without bed-curtains or window-curtains; strips of carpet by the beds only, and not too many persons in the room. There should be high fenders and fire-guards in both rooms, and an Etna should be provided for the night nursery, and a large clothes-horse for airing clothes.