ABSTRACT
Chambers’s Journal was initially called Chambers’s Edinburgh Journal and was a weekly sixteen-page magazine started by William Chambers in 1832. In 1854 the title was changed to Chambers’s Journal of Popular Literature, Science, and Art, and changed again to Chambers’s Journal at the end of 1897. When the family of a self-made man begin to use their drawing-room, the authors may be sure that they consider themselves fairly launched in their new sphere, and are determined to leave the habits and feelings of old days as much as possible behind them. The drawing-room of the young and rising actress has some idiosyncrasies which distinguish it from that of others. The actress, too, rarely inhabits her drawing-room, save on a Sunday. Time will not allow me to enter into descriptions of other classes of drawing-rooms.
