. La maison anglaise, comment juger de ses périodes et styles. plan, afin qu'ils w^ould beara beaucoup de poids et pourrait leur notupset roysterers tipsy. Il y a des bancs pour correspondre,chacune avec une large diffusion de pieds. L'hightable est différent, être un framedtable régulièrement, avec les jambes à bulbe, mais probablement aucun de ce mobilier est antérieure à l'époque d'Eliza beth ou James I. * Dans une photo de cette salle par Joseph Nash,reproduits ici, les détails sont bien donné, anda fête de Noël est représenté, avec ce projet-matic sentiment pour l'histoire qui donne tellement de muchvalue Nashs lithographies. Voici fourtee

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. The English house, how to judge its periods and styles. plan, so that they w^ould beara great weight and tipsy roysterers could notupset them. There are benches to correspond, each with wide-spreading feet. The hightable is different, being a regularly framedtable, with bulbous legs, but probably none ofthis furniture is earlier than the time of Eliza-beth or James I. * In a picture of this hall by Joseph Nash, reproduced here, the details are well given, anda Christmas feast is represented, with that dra-matic feeling for history which gives so muchvalue to Nashs lithographs. Here are fourteenth-century life and character ; but behind them, letus remember, was a movement which was toupset the old order of domestic routine, with itscommunal spirit. [See the Frontispiece.) This movement is the next thing to beconsidered. It meant, as we have seen, a wishto be more private ; and this natural desirecaused every new house to be judged by threequestions : I. Did it give greater quietness ? * Domestic Architecture of the Middle Ages, ii. 279, 280.. The Solar, Sutton Courtenay, Berkshire. Fourteenlh Century. LATER GOTHIC HOMES 127 2. Was it conveniently arranged ? 3. Were the household offices far enoughaway from the private rooms ? These questions have been answered thousandsof times since the fourteenth century, and onereply has been wrong, as a rule, generation aftergeneration. Very little respect has been shownfor those who have lived in the service quarter^ ;and to this fact we owe that dislike for domesticwork vi^hich has produced in our own day theServants Revolt. No such thing was knownwhen servants fed and slept in a common hall, because their lot then differed in degree, not inkind, from that of kings and queens ; but whena desire for privacy began to separate themfrom their superiors all the snobbishness inhuman nature had a chance to mark that sepa-ration in unkind ways, involving hardships orindignities. We may take the kitchen as an example. Inearly times, when

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