Now with the dining-room we have a difficulty to begin with, in the piece de resistance, the sideboard. This article, as such, did not exist in Jacobean times, and therefore we must do without it. I am reminded of the wealthy manufacturer who wrote to a well-known firm ordering an "Elizabethan" hat and umbrella stand, and upon being informed that such an article was an anachronism, he wrote back to say that he must have it because small was panelled and furnished with oak of period, adding the generous postscript that he not mind the price.

Sideboard, then, must be of a composite char-ging. A genuine old chest, and parts of an old bean bedstead are the necessary materials. rightful reference to some good drawings, so that light mouldings may be used; and, may I add, minimum of new carving is the next important deratum, and if the design be well thought out, the work skilfully done, a very satisfactory side-and may be arranged. It should have all the conveniences of modern requirements in the way interior cellaret fittings, drawers for napkins, wes for glass and silver, and the genuine old a need not be mutilated, but only mounted, the side or serving table may be found which is y old, and the search should be persevered in success rewards the trouble, but perhaps it and be as well to wait for the arrangement of the board until this be secured, as some useful sug-on may be taken from an examination of its led ornament and mouldings, nairs of Jacobean period are also possible, but do not "grow on the hedges," and moreover, m they are offered for sale, they must be care-ful examined, and the notes in the preceding liter may be of use in this connection, the room be required before these chairs can obtained, may I suggest that rather than have ation ones carved, the reader should get what called plain leather "Cromwellian" chairs, that chairs with leather seats and backs edged with is nails, only showing the plain oak wood-work e legs and stretchers. All the rest of the chair should be of self-coloured morocco leather, v will quarrel with nothing in the room.

For a table the best suggestion that I can is the purchase of an old one, and its alterative the size required by an intelligent expert whom be recommended for this class of work. No dis table of the Jacobean period can possibly be for capable of dining sixteen or eighteen person if the room be small, and larger parties than the even twelve are not required, it is quite fear to find one of the old "gate-leg" tables with folding flaps, which when open will give a much or oval top some five to six feet in diameter. The will probably be room for an old Jacobean of and the room will be sufficiently furnished, as its complement of oak is concerned.

A picture will be more suitable than a mirracle the place of honour over the chimney-piece, nothing of carpets and draperies, except to gest that an Eastern carpet cannot be amiss curtains of old red silk damask give a very 1 some setting to the dark oak. One is tempted think of old silver, some good Dutch pic Oriental china and sixteenth-century bronzes enough has been said without wandering to from the immediate subject of old furniture which this is a handbook and not a guide to finishing.

If there be still room for another piece of fu-ture, perhaps a genuine old seventeenth-century Court cupboard may be found. Nothing is way of a Jacobean cabinet can be more decors and they still exist in a more or less original.

A chimney-piece of the period in old oak is rare, but sometimes the upper part of an old richly-carved panels, may be picked up, and should be for choice mounted on a stone lower the stone work, if modern, being not much d, but composed of a moulded Jacobean arch, sionally when an old house is pulled down, a stone chimney-piece may be obtained.