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 652 The Architectural Review and American Builders' Journal. [April, and sand-papering to prepare it for the brush of the painter. Cantilevers will not bear piercing to any extent on account of their habitual slenderness of side profile. Brackets, on the contrary, are often pierced in wood, and always in metal. Wooden brackets being cut, by machine saws, against the grain, no real weight should ever be imposed upon them. The solid- centre wooden bracket, with relief orna- ments on both sides, will appropriately admit more ornamental saw curves than the open one, for this reason, evidently, the ornamental work will be more per- manent. In practice, however, this con- sideration has very little force, because the architect or builder thinks he really needs more linear beauty in the open bracket than in the closed one. The accompanying plate represents eleven different Designs for Brackets, adapted to what is already known in Europe, and fast, becoming so here, as The Bracketed Style, always intro- duced when extensive projections of the cornices are required. Figure 1 exhibits only the profile, the face, or end, being omitted. It has a solid centre, or core, two inches thick, with the scroll-work, sawn from one inch stuff, projecting, say, from one- half to five-eighths of an inch beyond the front edge of the core, or, in other words, the profile of the core will recede from that of the outer scroll. This will obviate the opening of the joints, from seasoning, and remove the plain appear- ance of a flat surface from the body of the bracket. Figure 2 is a design intended for a more massive structure, or a cornice of greater bulk, than that just instanced, although its construction is the same Its side indicates a little carving, not employed in Figure 1. Its face is given. Figure 3 is a bracket of small size, adapted more particularly to the eaves of porches, or any feature of a height not exceeding one story. Both side and face are presented. Figure 4, similar to Figure 3, with greater projection of face, is suitable for a second story. The method of making it is the same as with Figures 1 and 2. We give both side and face. Figure 5, a small bracket for porches, bay-windows, &c, needs no special re- mark. Both views are shown. Figure 6 is an Open Bracket, meant for great projections ; and may be ex- tended for overhanging eaves, to the covered ways of railroad stations, &c. Figure T is a Solid Bracket, which may almost be termed a Cantilever with a Bracket beneath it. The sides are studded, the ornaments being thus in relief. Both side and face are drawn. Figure 8 is another Cantilever- Bracket, with open work in the lower section. Its construction is like that of those above. The drawings show both side and face. Figure 9, though not so decided a compound, bears the same appellation as the last, from which it differs chiefly in having its pierced-work extended throughout its sides. This example is in five sections. There is a double core that recedes, forming two channels, in- . stead of one, in the face, which is like- wise displaj-ed. Figure 10 is a small example of Can- tilever-Bracket for light verandahs and other such structures. It is made from three-inch plank. The form is plain, with a chiseled depression on each side of its bodj' and chamfered edges. Both its face and side are here produced. Figure 1 1 is a Bracket that may be used at the height of two stories or up- wards. It should be increased in size according to the altitude of its presenta- tion. In addition to the scroll-work, the edges of its lower straight member are chamfered, and the face between channeled in a straight line by the gouge. The side and face both appear. This general form admits many elegant variations, as, indeed, do all the figures upon the plate. There is no country in the world in