Good sense dictates that the architect ture of the entrance lodge and gates should be in harmony with that of the house; and hence, if the dwelling-house and offices have any marked character of the Roman, Italian, Gothic, or other styles, the same ought also to be obvious in the lodge. On the other hand, if the architecture of the house and offices be mixed, or anomalous, so may be that of the lodge; or the lodge may be wholly in any one of the styles which is mixed up with the others in the mansion. That in every case the lodge ought to be in a humbler style of design than the more important buildings of the place, is sufficiently obvious from its more humble use. Independently altogether of style, care should be taken that the magnitude and seeming importance of the lodge be not such as to raise false expectations of the magnitude and importance of the house; at the same time, no lodge whatever ought to he so small as to raise doubts in the spectator of its being a comfortable habitation for a human being.

This idea ought to be borne constantly in mind, as well as those which respect style; for few things connected with an elegant country residence are more offensive to a humane mind, than to see boxes set down as lodges, not more, perhaps, than 10 ft. or 12 ft. square, with rooms not above 7 ft. high in the clear. When this is the case, and the occupant has children, he is sometimes obliged to live with half his family in a box on one side of the gate, and to send the other half to sleep in a box on the other side.