There is no utilitarian advantage in lighting the ceiling of a room, and every aesthetic consideration is against the practice. The effect is garish, unhomelike, and destructive of the proper "values". Light should obtain in the occupied portion of the room, the corners and ceiling going off into half-tone and shadow.

Side-lights, lamps, and candles are therefore the proper illuminants; for practical employment lamps especially, and electric if possible. Crystal chandeliers are "of the period" in the handsome interior illustrated in Plate 7, but for general use lamps are even there preferable. A good light over a dressing-table is a necessity (see Plate 138) and in practical homes scarcely less so over a dining-table. The usual domes are inadvisable, but a silk-covered fixture on the order of that in Mr. Wainwright's design (Plate 8) will prove attractive.

Decorative high lights are seen in several of the English interiors and they may be used upon occasion, lower lighting being usually employed.

As lamps arc the most noticeable objects in the room at night, and during the day their decorative value is of so great importance, the utmost care should be used in their selection.

If it is necessary to economise let it be elsewhere rather than here.

Lamps

See Plates 2, 5 (especially good as the two lamps agree without matching), 10, 41, 43, 63, 66, 68, 79, 92, 97.

Side-Lights

See Plates 5,9, 10, 11, 12, 37, 75, 98, 100, 114, 124, 126, 128 (left), 129, 139, 145, 151.

Lanterns And Hanging Lights

See Plates 1, 7, 8, 29, 42, 59A, 66, 69, 95, 121, 124, 151.