The beautifully-modeled plaster
frieze, with the central figure of Fame, is shown in the drawing-room,
and illustrates Chaucer's "House of Fame," the whole being elaborately
colored in harmony with the purposes and general tone of the room,
which is in blue and gold. The hooded mantelpiece in the library is
entirely in concrete, to be richly painted and gilded. The drawing,
with the assistance of the description, will explain
itself.--_Building News._
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MEMORABLE ENGLISH HOUSES.
In the year 1864, a letter appeared in the _Journal of the Society of
Arts_ from a correspondent, who suggested that the Society of Arts
should offer a prize or prizes for designs of memorial tablets to be
affixed to houses associated with distinguished persons, and in the
same year a series of suggested inscriptions was reprinted from the
_Builder_. The subject having been brought under the notice of the
council, a committee was appointed in 1866 to consider and report how
the society might promote the erection of statues or other memorials
of persons eminent in arts, manufactures, and commerce, and, at the
first meeting of the committee, on May 7, Mr. George C.T. Bartley
submitted some memoranda on the proposal to place labels on houses in
the metropolis known to have been inhabited by celebrated persons In
1837, the first tablet was erected by the society in Holles Street,
Cavendish Square, on the house where Byron was born.
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