Excerpt from Hints on Household Taste in Furniture, Upholstery, and Other Details<br><br>Some time ago a little essay of mine on 'the Fashion of Furniture,' which appeared in the Cornhill Magazine,' led to my being invited by the Editor of 'the Queen' to write for that journal a series of articles on the same subject. Those articles, combined with others recently con tributed to the 'london Review,' have formed, after considerable revision and additions, material.<br><br>About the Publisher<br><br>Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com<br><br>This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.