The reverse has taken place of that which we often see to-day in England.

Our modern builders and architects had--until perhaps quite recently--only one idea of a small house, the house, namely, which to-day characterizes the monotonous streets in the poorer quarters of our new towns, with its front door and bow window on one side, its offices behind, and its two other sides left blank for other houses to stand against.

This is a town house.

Yet our modern builders use it, all by itself, in the most desolate country districts.

I came across one such not long ago, when driving over a lonely valley in Exmoor.