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A Home within a Park. 99 They are very artistically executed by Messrs. Field & Hardie, Philadelphia. These gentlemen deserve much credit for the science and skill displayed in the production of fine specimens of bronzed metal. In a future number we shall present an essay on church, cathedral and sepulchral brasses, bronzes, &c, which will enable us to enlarge as well upon the mediaeval work as the modern artis- tic imitations of it, measurably to do justice to the taste of our townsmen, and to incite projectors to pay some little attention to these congruous ac- cessories for harmonizing — while they heighten the effect of — true architectural materials and good work. The chapel is ninety-five feet long, forty-two feet wide, and two stories high. The first story is a lecture-room, with ladies' vestry ; and the second is de- voted to Sunday-school purposes, in- cluding library, bible-class rooms, etc. The pastor's study is between the audience-room and the lecture-room, connecting with both. The Sunday-schoolroom is approached by commodious flights of stairs. The general arrangement of the entire edifice is as follows, beginning in the chapel : A, the pulpit ; B, the aisles ; C, ladies' chapel ; D, library ; E, organ ; F, choir ; G, the pulpit floor, or dais ; H, I, L, lobby, or passage ; J, vestibule ; K, stairs to school-room ; M, auditorium ; N, aisles ; O and P, vestibules. A HOME WITHIN A PARK. ON" taking up a newspaper, in a mo- mentary pause from our architec- tural labors, we were struck by the fol- lowing query and answer of, and to, a visitant at a country cemetery : " Do people die often, out here ?" " O, no ! they only die once !" Our faculties being much occupied, at the moment, by a magnificent enterprise, to wit, the preparing, professionally, of forty or fifty designs for residences, combining every conceivable elegance, or comfort, as homes, to be erected within the beautiful estate known as Redleap Park, near Philadelphia, upon the general idea of that of Llewellyn Park, at Orange, near New York city — this anecdote gave fresh impetus to our previously conceived ideas of the value of the opportunity, thus afforded us, through which we could aid, in greatly prolonging the lives of the prospective occupants of our Park, and also in pro- viding: each with a round of delightful enjoyment — the very opposite of the "living death," it has often become, both morally and physically, in our reasonably healthy, but yet pent-up city, which, however, while it compares very favorably with all the great metropolitan