For bed-room furniture, mahogany, maple-wood, and oak are the best and prettiest; there are also very serviceable, well-polished, stained wood imitations of all these three; and there are, too, very common and trumpery imitations, which turn shabby in a few months, and are generally badly put together, and do no service; two good chairs are worth a dozen of such rubbish as these latter. As a general rule, we should advise avoidance of all cheap, showy, furnishing establishments; likewise, unless you are wealthy, of all fashionable upholsterers. Patronize good, old-established houses of business, and do not, to spare trouble, enter a large emporium, which too often, like Jack-of-all-trades, does everything, but nothing well; seek for separate articles at the establishments of various respectable tradespeople. Never buy second-hand bedsteads, bedding, or hangings, unless you are well convinced that no more than you bargain for is included in the purchase. Iron and brass bedsteads, which can now be had of every size, form, and price, are far preferable, both as regards health, cleanliness, and lightness, to any others. Chintz or dimity are better for bed-furniture than damask, moreen, or any fabric containing wool; they harbour less dust, and are less liable to hide vermin. Kidderminster carpets are best adapted for bed-rooms. Never place carpet under a bed, or you provide a resting-place for all the dust and flock which daily falls from the mattresses, and establish a nice hot-bed for fleas. Let the carpet be composed of about three pieces, in order that it may be frequently taken up and beaten or shaken, and the floor scrubbed clean. Those who value health will not have a feather-bed in their house. Good mattresses of wool, and wool and horsehair, iron bedsteads, and as little bed-furniture, curtains, &c., as may be, with a light quilt, are the best preventives against rising languid, inert, and unfit in the morning for the duties of the day. Never crowd a bed-room with furniture; have that which is really useful and requisite, and no more; and in fitting it up, always remember that illness often comes when we least expect it, and take care that your room shall possess such articles as will then be needful for comfort and ease. A dining-room requires little furniture; but that little should be good and handsome, and of mahogany. About furnishing drawing-rooms, we can give no directions, so much depends upon taste. We would only reiterate our warning to beware of showy, veneered, vamped-up furniture; or, when the room has had a fire in it some dozen times, you will be startled occasionally by reports, as if small cannon were discharged, and on rising to investigate such alarming noises, you will find, perhaps, a crack across one door of the beautiful rosewood cheffonier, or a gaping chasm in that lovely loo-table, or a piece of carved work flown off the card-table, showing only deal beneath!