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.

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

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

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