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 VILLAS IN VARIOUS STYLES. 1449 829 fifty different sorts of wine, besides spirits and liquors in bins, with temporary sub- dixisioiis) ; /, butler's pantry, fourteen feet by ten feet ; m, larder, beside which there are a closet for common liquors, and other articles, and n, butler's sleeping-room. I-"ig. 1451 is the plan of the prmcipal floor ; in which o is the porch ; p, the entrance hall and staircase, eighteen feet by nine feet ; q, the library, twenty-five feet by twenty feet, having folding-doors, so as to separate it at pleasure into two rooms ; and r, the dining- room, twenty feet by eighteen feet, with a principal entrance and servants' entrance, and the sideboard placed in a recess between them. Behind the sideboard is a magnificent mirror (filling the whole of a semicircular recess, the diameter of which is of the length of the sideboard), which reflects the garden, including the lake, the knoll to the left, and the promontory, crowned by the colossal terminal statue. In the centre of the dining- room is a fixed circular table, on a principle which will be shown under Villa Furniture, capable, in its ordinary form, of dining eight persons ; and, by addition of marginal rims, each of which is a segment of a circle, twenty inches broad, of dining twenty persons. In the floor, at the upper and lower ends of the table, are springs attached to the under