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                                 Plate XXV.
   This plate is a design for the side of a library in the Elizabethan style.
It will be desirable, if expense be not an objection, to use wainscot in
the
execution of the work, or the old oak carvings may be imitated in deal,
which, when stained and waxed, will have a handsome appearance. If the
ornaments in the upper part of the design be carved in separate blocks, they
may be easily fixed afterwards, and that plan will facilitate the execution
of
the work.    The Elizabethan style admits of a great variety and strength
of
colouring, but in the design here presented to the reader, it will be desirable
to confine the colour to that of the wainscot, as any decoration which
approaches in the slightest degree to gaudiness, is unfit for a library.
                                 Plate XXVI.
                              D E T A I L S.
          Figure 1. Is an enlarged view of the upper half of the pillar,
archi-
       volt, spandril, frieze, architrave, and cornice of the design, represented
       in Plate XXV.
          Figure 2. Is an enlarged view of one half of the pediment ornament.
          Figure 3. Is the base and pedestal of the columns to a large scale.
          Figure 4. Is an enlarged view of one of the panels and ornaments
to the lower part of the design.
   These details are introduced, not merely to enable the workman to execute
the design to which they refer, but also to assist others in preparing modifica-
tions of our design, which may be easily so altered as to appear altogether
different, the leading characters being preserved. The student will find
this a
useful exercise.