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plaster building; but if a little black and yellow be mixed with
the lime, the resemblance to the colour of stone satisfies the eye
almost as much as if it were built of the most costly materials,
witness WOODLEY, BABWORTH, TAPLOW, &C.
To produce effect by difference of colour in buildings, such
as red and yellow bricks, black and white flints, or even edging
brick-work with dressings of stone, is the poor expedient of the
mere bricklayer; the same may be observed' of that paltry taste
'for pointing the joints of brick-work to render them more conspi-
cuous, and of course more offensive.
As a general principle I should assert, that no externaleffect
of light or shade on a building ought to be attempted, except
by such projections or recesses, as will naturally produce them,
since every, effect produced by colour is a trick, or sham expe-
dient; and on the same principle a recess in the wall is preferable
to a painted window, unless it is actually glazed.
With respect to the colour of. sashes and window frames, I
think they may be thus determined with propriety, first observing
that, from the inside of the room, the landscape looks better
through bars of a dark colour; but on the outside, in small cot-
tages, they may be green, because it is a degree of ornament
not incompatible with the circumstances of the persons supposed
to inhabit them, and even in such small houses as  may be
deemed cottages, the same colour may be proper; but in pro-
portion as it approaches to a mansion, it should not derive its
decoration from  so insignificant an expedient as colour, and
therefore to a gentleman's house the outsideof the sashes should
be white, whether they be' of mahogany, of oak, or of deal,
because externally the glass is fastened by a substance which