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 746 The Architectural Review and American Builders' Journal. [June, tectural Review is dedicated, namely the making the ideas of one known to all, and giving the credit where it is due. The plan here presented is one of peculiar convenience and economy of space. A terrace is obtained by keep- ing the basement high and sloping the ground from the rear. The effect is good and the surface drainage complete. The plan of this villa speaks for itself. The hall is ample and very convenient ; the stairs, principal and private, are well situated to give easy access to the upper floors, and the kitchen and dining room are sufficiently removed from the reception rooms to be strictl}' private. The chamber plan is excellent, giving large and airy hall-way and well lighted bed-rooms, each furnished with what the ladies of Boston so much insist upon, ample closet-room. A reference to the plan will easily convey the idea of the architect. A, The Hall. B, The Drawing Room. C, The Library. D, The Dining Room. E, The Kitchen. F, The Pantry. G, The Wash Room. H, The China Closet. I. Passage or back hall leading to j-ard. J, Front Porch. K, The' Terrace. The upper section of the accompany- ing double engraving shows the villa in perspective. The chamber plan is thus arranged M, M, M, M, Are the Bed Rooms. JNT, The Principal Landing. O, Box Stairs and passages. P, Bath and W. C. R, R, The roofs of Oriels. The Attic is divided into good capa- cious rooms, one of which is devoted to Billiards. This is a house of moderate cost, the main, or square portion, of which is thirty-one by thirty-seven feet, with a one-story addition twelve feet wide. It may be taken as a fair specimen of its class. WORKINGMEN'S COTTAGES. IT is an indisputable fact, and one that should never be lost sight of, that the foundation of society is com- posed of the working class ; and by such title we would be understood to mean the mechanics and the laborers, by the exercise of whose muscle, brain, and handicraft, the necessities of the every-day communit}' are met, and with- out whose efforts those arts which give birth to luxury would cease to have an existence. If it be, as it unquestionably is, a thing of necessitj- that order should be the first law in the regulation of every community, it must follow, as a thing of equal necessity, that the enforcement of that law should be urged at the homes, where abide those who are called upon to obey it, and on whose obedience rests the peace of such community. Order at home must be founded on principles of comfort, which naturally spring from a feeling of satisfaction which has been derived from a gratification of the senses. Thus, the man who has a home, present- ing comfort allied to taste, feels a love for it, a thankfulness for its possession,