THIS building is designed as a habitation of the gardener, and is suited to receive all the ornament that its purpose affords, and which his taste and industry may conveniently supply, in a choice growth of creepers, woodbine, clematis, and other luxuriant foliages. The overhanging roofs and galleries of such buildings are well adapted to expose his herbs to dry for the winter's use; and in the country whence the character of the cottage is selected, the Swiss husbandman fully understands the value of the protection afforded by them. A building of this kind will either be beautifully in unison with the most decorated part of the garden, as it is fully ornamented by its inhabitant; or will accord with a more romantic character of scene, if those embellishments are not supplied. Vol. FIII. No. XLV. The whole frame-work of the cottage may be executed by any ingenious carpenter, and if in the neighbourhood of a cheap supply of timber, it may be erected at a small expense, as its construction is entirely of wood, the chimney excepted, and it is proposed to be covered by reed-thatching. The variety of form and colour which this kind of cottage should possess, admirably fits it for garden embellishment; and the colour is obtained genuinely by the materials used in its construction, such as unbarked planks of several kinds of trees, interspersed with sawn oak, elm, ash, yew, cherry, walnut, and any other wood that will aid the intention. This cottage would conveniently contain five apartments and a staircase: there is, however, a stair on the outside, which is a common feature in these buildings. S MISCELLANIES. CORRESPONDENCE OF THE ADVISER. Mr. ADVISER, efforts to get possession of the subject, he at last snatched up his hat, and made a hasty exit. Some time ago, Mr. F. who has just returned from the Continent, was beginning some remarks on the present state of Italy, when my wife, who, I must observe to you, has never travelled, and who certainly reads very little either on that or any other subject, began a dissertation on the archi I WISH Very much that you were a married man, because in that case you probably might have sympathized with me. I am, sir, the unfortunate husband of a lady who possesses the copia verborum in a degree hitherto I believe unequalled, and certainly never surpassed. I am myself far from being of a taciturn temper; and I will leave you to judge, how exces-tecture of some of the principal sively irksome I must find it to be buildings at Rome, which lasted till compelled constantly to play the Mr. F. took his leave. part of a mute in my own house. Nor is this all my wife thinks so highly of her own talents for conversation, that she uses all my friends in the same manner; and when we have company (which, to say the truth, is seldom the case, for people, and especially ladies, are shy of coming to a house where they know they will not be suffered to talk), they are scarcely allowed to ask her how she does, before she begins with a string of inquiries, to which she never stops to receive answers from these she digresses from subject to subject, with so much rapidity, that she scarcely allows time for any one else to get in more than a word or two. Sometimes these slight interruptions pass without remark on her part; at others, they furnish her with a fresh topic. She declaimed the other day for an hour on the state of the funds, to the manifest annoyance of a stock-broker who was seated close to her elbow: af. ter he had made several unavailing" It is not only subjects of consequence which provoke her to exercise her tongue, nothing is too minute to draw forth her powers. I recollect the other day she threw poor Billy Simper into a fit of the fidgets, by snatching him up just as he began the history of a new cuff which he was going to introduce. A violent fit of coughing seized my wife, and enabled him to get as far as an attempt made by Sir Thomas Trimwell to wrest the credit of the invention from him, by tampering with his tailor; but whether the baronet was likely to succeed we could not learn, for Mrs. Chatterfast having recovered her voice, entered with so much. spirit into a description of the male costume of Queen Anne's time, that Billy was completely silenced, These specimens, Mr. Adviser, will convince you of my wife's excessive love of talking; and I beg of you either to favour her with some wholesome advice, which may cause a change in her behaviour, or 1 else point out to me any mode by | love of notoriety, I shall conclude which you think I may remedy the my paper with a brief sketch of his evil I complain of: in either case pursuits. you will much oblige your humble servant, CHARLES CHATTERFAST. Nature has not bestowed upon Dick any qualities, either personal or mental, by which he could shine. in society; but his vanity, nevertheless, made him desirous of occupying a distinguished place in it. It unluckily happened, that his attempts were of a nature which exposed him to ridicule: he possessed sense enough to feel it keenly, but he had not prudence to remain quiet; he must be singular in some way or other. He began, therefore, to affect the character of a blunt fellow; and as he did not know where to stop in his new career, he persevered till he has I am sorry for the case of my correspondent, but I fear that it is without remedy, unless he can prevail upon his wife to make an engagement similar to one which I have heard was made between two French gentlemen. They were old "friends, and much attached, but by degrees each perceived that he was neglected by the other. Upon this they determined to ascertain the cause, when it came out that each made the same complaint of the other; namely, that he engross-made himself detested. Under the ed all the conversation. "Well," said one of them, "when we meet tête-à-tête, let us agree to put our watches upon the table, and let each of us talk for a certain time." The other consented, but upon this condition, that as he was himself somewhat asthmatical, his friend should not take any advantage of the occasional pauses which he might be obliged to make, but should patiently wait for his turn. An agreement of this kind I think might be a means of rendering my correspondent's situation more comfortable; only I fear, from what he says of his wife, she would be apt to infringe the condition of waiting for her turn. I had just finished the above piece of advice, when my old acquaintance, Dick Dampall, was announced. As Dick is a singular character, and all that is bad in him may be traced to an inordinate cover of blunt honesty, he is perpetually shocking people with the most disagreeable truths, which it is equally cruel and unnecessary to tell them. If there is any circumstance in your history, or that of any of your family, which it is unpleasant to you to hear spoken of, it is a hundred to one but Dick will introduce it into conversation with as much ease as if he were saying the most obliging thing in the world. He never misses an opportunity of wounding the feelings of others, and the variety of ways in which he contrives to do it, is scarcely credible. If he is in company with a man who has risen in the world by his industry, he never fails to talk to him about the advantages of birth; he will harangue for an hour on the proud consciousness which those who possess it, must feel of their own superiority to mere monied people. If, on the contrary, any of the company have |