[Anon], ‘How shall we Furnish our Houses? China, Glass, and Silver Ware.’

Like other interior spaces, the dining room was subject to much advice as to layout, decoration and furnishings. Another evaluation of the dining room and its equipment is made in Eastlake’s famous Hints on Household Taste (1869) where he devotes thirty pages to the topic. The New Path was one of the early, albeit short-lived, art journals published in the United States. The New York-based Society for the Advancement of Truth in Art published it from May 1863 to 1864. This group, who espoused Ruskinian values, included the art critic Clarence Cook who was one of its founders, and first editor of The New Path. The magazine passed to new publishers but folded in December 1865. This article appears to have been the first of two in a planned series that was curtailed by the cessation of publication. The other article was to deal with carpets and curtains.