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Rh law regards in the light of owners of the whole. But to return to the Social Palace. It is a magnificient structure surrounded by fields and groves and gardens through which winds the picturesque river of Oise. The great iron manufactory is at a little distance. The palace consists of three quadrangles each one having its interior court with an immense roof of glass. These quadrangles join, and corridors on each of the floors permit free communication. Around the interior courts, under the glass roofs on each story, run corridors, protected by strong iron balustrades, and to these the apartments open. The walls are very high, studded and elegantly "hard finished;" the windows are large and open in every suite of apartments on the court also on the outside of the palace. A steam engine forces the water from distant living springs on to every floor of the building, and on the roof of the principal one is a great reservoir of this water. This reservoir is connected with hydrants in the courts, and on warm days the courts, the walls, the balconies and even the great roofs themselves are throughly sprinkled, thus rendering the air cool and sweet. The floors of the balconies being of tiles the water can do no harm.

The ventilation of the palace is on a new plan; So far as I know, it is the only building in the world that can be called perfectly ventilated. This is effected by immense subterranean galleries opening north some distance from the palace. These galleries run all around the cellars and under the courts, and the fresh air passes through them into the courts and up through interior passages in the walls that open by register into every apartment. It is the design of Mr. Godin to put hot air furnaces in these passages and thus warm the palace at the same time it is