ABSTRACT
A small hanging light is to be preferred for the writing-table, as it leaves more room for papers. A leaf and twisted vine-tendril is an inexpensive, pretty, and suitable design. Green and orange paper shades are pleasant for reading; but when many people use the same room green is preferable, as in the semi-darkness of a library any shade of yellow makes an unpleasantly bright spot. When the library is inhabited by the sons and younger members of the family, pendants with counterweights are best, as standards with flexible wires are hardly safe, during the constant “colley-shangles” that must inevitably take place. The small back downstairs-room of a London house often serves as library, den, and smoking room for the master, and candidly it must be confessed that as a rule it is a dingy little hole.
