ts.--Important
as to line and colour.

CHAPTER VI. WINDOW SHADES AND AWNINGS

Coloured gauze sash-curtains.--Window shades of glazed linen, with
design in colours.--Striped canvas awnings.

CHAPTER VII. TREATMENT OF PICTURES AND PICTURE FRAMES

Selecting pictures.--Pictures as pure decoration.--"Staring" a
picture.--Restraint necessary in hanging pictures.--Hanging
miniatures.

CHAPTER VIII. TREATMENT OF PIANO CASES

Where interest centres abound piano.--Where piano is part of ensemble.

CHAPTER IX. TREATMENT OF DINING-ROOM BUFFETS AND DRESSING-TABLES

Articles placed upon them.

CHAPTER X. TREATMENT OF WORK TABLES, BIRD CAGES, DOG BASKETS, AND
FISH GLOBES

Value as colour notes.

CHAPTER XI. TREATMENT OF FIREPLACES

Proportions, tiles, andirons, grates.

CHAPTER XII. TREATMENT OF BATHROOMS

A man's bathroom.--A woman's bathroom.--Bathroom fixtures.--Bathroom
glassware.

CHAPTER XIII. PERIOD ROOMS

Chiselling of
metals.--Ormoulu.--Chippendale.--Colonial.--Victorian.--The art of
furniture making.--How to hang a mirror.--Appropriate furniture.--A
home must have human quality, a personal note.--Mrs. John L.
Gardner's Italian Palace in Boston.--The study of colour
schemes.--Tapestries.--A narrow hall.

CHAPTER XIV. PERIODS IN FURNITURE

The story of the evolution of periods.--
Assyria.--Egypt.--Greece.--Rome.--France.
--England.--America.--Epoch-making styles.

CHAPTER XV. CONTINUATION OF PERIODS IN FURNITURE

Greece.--Rome.--Byzantium.--Dark Ages.--Middle
Ages.--Gothic.--Moorish.--Spanish.--Anglo-Saxon.--Caesar's
Table.--Charlemagne's Chair.--Venice.

CHAPTER XVI. THE GOTHIC PERIOD

Interior decoration of Feudal Castle.--Tapestry.--Hallmarks of Gothic
oak carving.

CHAPTER XVII. THE RENAISSANCE

Italy.--The Medici.--Great architects, painters, designers, and workers
in metals.--Marvellous pottery.--Furniture inlaying.--Hallmarks
of Renaissance.--Oak carving.--Metal work.--Renaissance in Germany
and Spain.

CHAPTER XVIII. FRENCH FURNITURE

Renaissance of classic period.--Francis I, Henry II, and the
Louis.--Architecture, mural decoration, tapestry, furniture, wrought
metals, ormoulu, silks, velvets, porcelains.

CHAPTER XIX. THE PERIODS OF THE THREE LOUIS

How to distinguish them.--Louis XIV.--Louis XV.--Louis
XVI.--Outline.--Decoration.--Colouring.--Mural Decoration.--Tapestry.

CHAPTER XX. CHARTS SHOWING HISTORICAL EVOLUTION OF FURNITURE

French an