They all show the sharp-edged strata of unaffiliated tastes and styles of different ages and artists.
They lack the oneness of a single individuality, of one great symmetrical conception.
This one-mindedness, this one-man power of conception and execution gives to the Duke of Devonshire's palace at Chatsworth an interest and a value that probably do not attach to any other private establishment in England.

In this felicitous characteristic it stands out in remarkable prominence and in striking contrast with nearly all the other baronial halls of the country.

It is the parlor pier-glass of the present century.

It reflects the two images in vivid apposition--the brilliant civilization of this last, unfinished age in which we live and the life of bygone centuries; that is, if Haddon Hall shows its face in it, or if you have the features of that antiquity before your eyes when you look into the Chatsworth mirror.

The whole of this magnificent establishment bears the impress of the nineteenth century, inside and outside.
The architecture, sculpture, carving, paintings, engravings, furniture, libraries, conservatories, flowers, shrubberies and rockeries all bear and honor the finger-prints of modern taste and art.