Our EfentiS and How to Beautify Them. By H. J.
Jennings. (Harrison and Sons. 5s. net.)—Here we have a variety of sugges- tions about various decorations of the interior of houses, fire- Places furniture of all kinds, tapestries, chairs, couches, tables, docks, &c.; about papers and panels; about the arrangement of rooms, and other matters. All of these things are fully illus- bated by a number of attractive photographs of actual objects, and sometimes of whole rooms. Mr. Jennings has, we see, a section devoted to the "Flat," which, considering the vast in- crease of this kind of dwelling, should be particularly useful. His comments are commonly sensible. On the subject of bath- rooms, however, what he says must be taken cum grano. It is highly imprudent to set up a bath-room without a regular—i.e., a company—water supply, and, we should be inclined to add, with- out a regular system of drainage. In many country houses it is a difficulty to obtain the water and a still greater difficulty to dispose of it.
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