not, however, think that this chimney-stack would be too heavy if placed astride of the ridge in the ordinary way; but I have drawn it thus to illustrate the remarks made in a preceding page upon this point.

In Fig. 5 is given an elevation of a pair of cottages with the recess in the middle instead of at the ends. It is for the plan No. 3 in which the flues are in the wall between the kitchen and the scullery. Their being so placed makes a great difference in the elevation; the chimney-stack being by this means placed at the ridge of the roof instead of in the outer end walls of the building. There is considerable advantage in this arrangement. The flues are entirely within the building, instead of in an outside wall, and there are other advantages in having the chimneys at the ridge of the roof. I think, also, that it makes a compact and well-proportioned building of the pair of cottages, and that a small amount of attention to detail, so as to make it ornamental, would make this a handsome pair of cottages. It

would perhaps have made the elevation still better to have brought the roof two feet lower down, but this cannot be done, because it would not leave sufficient headroom on the landing at the top of the stairs. I may mention here that I think it an advantage having the flues in this position as well when the cottages are attached by the longer side as when they are in the form of Fig. 5, and that the having two chimney-stacks instead of one, as would then be the case, would be an improvement to the design of that form of cottage also.

Fig. 6 is an elevation for a pair of cottages of the plan No. 4, in which the recess is deep and wide. In this elevation the pair of cottages are joined together by the long side, and they are roofed with a single roof over the living-rooms of the two cottages. This is a very convenient way of roofing such a pair of cottages, but it is apt to be a very ugly one. There is something awkward in having two windows in the same gable, as may be seen by looking at this design, in which, however, this defect is, I think, as little

offensive as in any that I have ever met with. This arrangement of the roof is only adapted to roofs which have a very low pitch. It is evident, indeed, to any one, that so wide a gable as the one in the front of this cottage cannot very well be made to have a high pitch.

Fig. 7 is an elevation for a pair of cottages of the same plan as the last, only joined together by the short side. Like the last, it has a very low-pitched roof, and to this as well as to the last one applies the rule, that the chimneys must be small and low whenever the roof is very low-pitched. If any one will try putting high chimneys upon either of these designs, he will see this immediately.

Fig. 8 would, I think, make a handsome pair of cottages. It is a design for a pair of the same plan, and exactly similarly arranged, as the last figure; excepting that in this one the roof is moderately high-pitched, and that part of the upper floor rooms are, in consequence, in the roof.

In Fig. 9 is given an elevation for a pair of

cottages of the plan No. 10. This is the least expensive form of cottage possible, because the ground-plan of the pair forms very nearly a square, so that there is as little wall as possible in proportion to the space contained in it. It may, of course, be roofed in other ways besides that here shown. The walls, for instance, might be raised 2 ft. higher than in this design and a flat-hipped roof put on to it-this would cost a little less than the design here given; it would also be as ugly as it is possible to make a building to be. The large roof and solid appearance of this design måke it one with which tall chimneys are in good keeping. In the plan No. 10, this cottage is drawn as having only two bedrooms; and if they were built to have only two in each cottage, the window of the back bedroom might be in the gable, and the dormer window at the back of the cottage would be dispensed with: but, as has been said before, there is sufficient space in the upper floor to make three bedrooms, by making the third bed

room open out of the larger one, in which case the second bedroom would require the dormer window as drawn in this design.

Fig. 10 is an elevation for the plan No. 19, which comprises two cottages, one of which has three upstairs bedrooms, and the other two upstairs bedrooms, and a room on the groundfloor, which may be called either a bedroom or a parlour. This I think a very useful plan for a pair of cottages; and I also think, that, from its having three pair of windows in the front, instead of two or four, as in most of the other plans, it is easier to make a pretty elevation for this pair of cottages than for the others. The back door is drawn in this design as in the plan-that is, facing the end of the cottage; but, as was said in noticing the plan itself, it is much better in this plan to use the common arrangement of a cottage, and go through the scullery to the back door, by which means a larger and better pantry is obtained, and the awkwardness of a diagonal passage is avoided. In this case