In the nineteenth century we find the chintz covered with disjointed sprigs, as though the flowers had been plucked and cast upon the cloth. Their outline is softened by a margin of dots. An illustration of this style is shown on p. 335. [Illustration: PRINTED CHINTZ. From the Calico Printing Factory at Sobden, in Lancashire. Printed in 1831 under the direction of Richard Cobden. (_In the collection of Mrs. Cobden Unwin._)] One need not pursue the history of chintzes further, for to do so would entail a discussion of modern methods. Suffice it to say that in the nineteenth century we come across the hideous black grounds, the base imitation of woven designs, leopard skins, and other inartistic perversions. We must rather bid adieu to this beautiful art ere it has begun to decline. It will afford the reader much pleasure if he should form a collection of old specimens and frame them around his walls, for then he will fully appreciate their charm. In examining his own collection the author has spent many a pleasant hour, for these gaily coloured chintzes are among the most articulate relics which have come down to us. They breathe the spirit, the feelings, and the ideals of the periods wherein they were made. They show lucidly the various changes in fashion and the rise and wane in the popularity of certain forms of decoration. So delectable are their soft, faded colours, so fascinating are the designs, and above all, so enchanting is the old-world musty scent which always clings to them, that it would be hard indeed to withhold one's affection from them. INDEX Adam style table, 186 America, the Windsor chair acclimatised in, 246 America, spindle-back chairs, 239 America, carved chests of Puritan colonists, 60 America, types coincident with Jacobean, 60 Anachronism in country makers' work, 204 Anne, Queen, chintz printing in time of, 325 Anne, Queen, style--cabriole leg, advent of, 167 Anne, Queen, chests of drawers, 67 Anne, Queen, scandal at Court of, 158 Anne, Queen, so-called style, 167 Back--the chair, and its development, 203 Bacon cupboards, 154 Ball and claw foot, introduction of, 162 "Barley sugar" turning, illustrated, 105 Bedfordshire tables, 283 Bedstead, Jacobean, illustrated, 77 Bevel of panel indicating date, 204 Bible-boxes, 34, 139-154 Bloomfield, Robert, quoted, 268 Bobbins, Buckinghamshire, 153 Brittany dressers, 134 Broken corners, Queen Anne style, 167, 169 Buckinghamshire bobbins, 153 Bureau bookcase and cupboard, 176 Bureaus, marquetry in coloured woods, 169 Byzantine types of furniture existent in Elizabethan days, 37 Cabriole leg, advent of the, 167 Cabriole leg (Queen Anne period), 129 Cambridge tables, 283 Candle dipper, the, 288 Cane-back chairs, 203, 207 Cane-back chairs, late Stuart, 199