Furniture"--The Glastonbury Chair--Introduction of Frames into England--Characteristics of Native Woodwork--Famous Country Mansions--Alteration in design of Woodwork and Furniture--Panelled Rooms in South Kensington--The Charterhouse--Gray's Inn Hall and Middle Temple--The Hall of the Carpenters' Company--The Great Bed of Ware--Shakespeare's Chair--Penshurst Place. Chapter IV. English Home Life in the Reign of James I.--Sir Henry Wootton quoted--Inigo Jones and his work--Ford Castle--Chimney Pieces in South Kensington Museum--Table in the Carpenters' Hall--Hall of the Barbers' Company--The Charterhouse--Time of Charles I.--Furniture at Knole--Eagle House, Wimbledon--Mr. Charles Eastlake--Monuments at Canterbury and Westminster--Settles, Couches, and Chairs of the Stuart period--Sir Paul Pindar's House--Cromwellian Furniture--The Restoration--Indo-Portuguese Furniture--Hampton Court Palace--Evelyn's description--The Great Fire of London--Hall of the Brewers' Company--Oak Panelling of the time--Grinling Gibbons and his work--The Edict of Nantes--Silver Furniture at Knole--William III. and Dutch influence--Queen Anne--Sideboards, Bureaus, and Grandfather's Clocks--Furniture at Hampton Court. Chapter V. CHINESE FURNITURE: Probable source of artistic taste--Sir William Chambers quoted--Racinet's "Le Costume Historique"--Dutch influence--The South Kensington and the Duke of Edinburgh Collections--Processes of making Lacquer--Screens in the Kensington Museum. JAPANESE FURNITURE: Early History--Sir Rutherford Alcock and Lord Elgin--The Collection of the Shogun--Famous Collections--Action of the present Government of Japan--Special characteristics. INDIAN FURNITURE: Early European influence--Furniture of the Moguls--Racinet's Work--Bombay Furniture--Ivory Chairs and Table--Specimens in the India Museum. PERSIAN WOODWORK: Collection of Objets d'Art formed by Gen. Murdoch Smith, R.E.---Industrial Arts of the Persians--Arab influence--South Kensington specimens. SARACENIC WOODWORK: Oriental customs--Specimens in the South Kensington Museum of Arab Work--M. d'Aveune's Work. Chapter VI.