The elegancies of _home_ life are all shut out of their attractions.

You see in them the work and presence of a committee, or corporation, often in discrepant layers of taste and plan.

One mind does not stand out or above the whole, fashioning the tout- ensemble to the symmetrical lines of one governing, all-pervading and shaping thought.

You see no exquisite artistry of drawing-room or boudoir elegance and luxury running through living apartments of home, out into the conservatories, lawns, gardens, park and all its surroundings and embellishments, making the whole like a great illuminated volume of family life, which you may peruse page by page, and trace the same pen and the same story from beginning to end.

Even the grandest royal residences lack, in this quality, what you will find at Chatsworth.