ABSTRACT
There was a growing demand during the Napoleonic Wars for houses that would be comfortable enough to support a leisured lifestyle, but without large landed estates to support them. Experience teaches the reader that certain figures of bodies appear to the reader more beautiful than others: on inquiring farther the people find that the regularity of some figures, and the graceful variety of others, constitute the beauty they discern in them. A lean-to closet, a bow-window, a pent-house, chimneys carried high and in masses, or gable ends, are suitable picturesque objects, and will generally produce the wished-for effect. Deep recesses and bold projections are great assistants, while the play of light and shadow, which they produce, heighten a brilliant and pleasing effect but: as before noticed, nothing should appear without its use, otherwise what was intended to embellish will only serve to encumber.
