Having thus rapidly touched upon the series of materials upon which the Art may be brought to bear, and the leading principles of design suitable under different circumstances, I proceed to suggest the class of "legends," as the mediæval decorators called them, likely to prove most fitting for special situations. No doubt many more apt and piquant may suggest themselves to some practical illuminators than the few I have culled (with the assistance of one or two kind friends), principally from old English writers; but to others, those I now present may not be without, at any rate, a convenient suggestiveness. Something similar to the following I would recommend for the embellishment of ceilings, friezes, string-courses, or flat walls of the different apartments indicated. Of some I have given four lines--one, say, for each side of a room; of others but a line, such as might go over a door. Between the two are many suitable for panels or irregular situations; and in one or two cases passages of many lines have been chosen, fit for illumination on vellum or paper, and for framing to hang up in the apartments specified, or to be inserted in panels or furniture or on screens. FOR DRAWING-ROOMS. "For trouble in earth take no melancholy; Be rich in patience, if thou in goods be poor. Who lives merry, he lives mightily; Without gladness avails no treasùre." WM. DUNBAR. "Since earthly joy abideth never, Work for the joy that lestis ever; For other joy is all in vain; All earthly joy returns in pain." _Idem._ "Who shuts his hand hath lost his gold; Who opens it, hath it twice told." GEORGE HERBERT. "No bliss so great but cometh to an end; No hap so hard but may in time amend." ROBERT SOUTHWELL. "Freedom all solace to man gives; He lives at ease, that freely lives." JOHN BARBOUR. "That which is not good, is not delicious To a well-governed and wise appetite." MILTON. FOR A STUDIO. "Order is Nature's beauty, and the way To order is by rules that Art hath found." GWILLIM. FOR A FAMILY PORTRAIT-GALLERY OR HALL. "Boast not the titles of your ancestors, Brave youths: they're their possessions, none of yours. When your own virtues equall'd have their names, 'Twill be but fair to lean upon their fames, For they are strong supporters; but till then The greatest are but growing gentlemen." BEN JONSON. FOR BREAKFAST OR DINING ROOMS. "A good digestion turneth all to health." WORDSWORTH. "If anything be set to a wrong taste, 'Tis not the meat there, but the mouth's displeased. Remove but that sick palate, all is well." BEN JONSON.