'Horse fire-screens' are upon a pair of trestle legs, and remind one of Shearers screen writing-table. The screen part slides up and down in grooves on the uprights. Candle-stands rest on a single pole with circular base, or on a tripod, or else have three or four long legs stretching from top to bottom and branching into curves. In these last, and in his window cornice and mirror designs, Heppelwhite breaks away from his general habit of rectangular plainness without projections. As I have said before, it is difficult to conceive how some of his pier-glasses and girandoles could possibly have been executed with any hope of their lasting intact for a twelvemonth.

But such things as these are not Heppelwhite at his best. They are an aberration from his usual sound common-sense, which is admirably shown in his bureau bookcases, sideboards, and especially in his bedroom furniture. He has not the variety either of ornament or of shape which Chippendale and Sheraton possess, but his patterns are perhaps more in vogue for imitation to this day than theirs, because of their moderation and their unpretentious practical usefulness. They serve as his only memorial, for not enough is known of Heppelwhite even to warrant his inclusion in the Dictionary of National Biography.