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to the ground. The former subdivide into House-Building, Furnishing, and Housekeeping. As to House Building, it is to be remarked that men do not devote their lives inquiring into the best way of making caves, snow-houses, ice-houses, submerged-houses, or glass-houses; and the making of tents is a branch of the sailmaker's art. Sky-scrapers, cathedrals, and other enormous structures are not built scientifically unless the construction is entrusted to civil-engineers; and engineering is not a science principally ministrant to the Gentleman instinct. We, therefore, find the houses to the study of which the present group of sciences is confined are ordinary houses of wood, stone, and concrete. When a man who knows how to use modern inventions shall be employed by a multimillionaire to make a really good house, the whole science will be revolutionized. But it will probably be two generations before such intelligence is developed. Stone-laying and masonry are not confined to house-building. But Carpentry is so chiefly; for