Note 45 — LLANGOLLEN VALE, INSCRIBED TO THE RIGHT HONOURABLE LADY ELEANOR BUTLER, AND MISS PONSONBY.

l. 11. Minute Lyceum—The Library, fitted up in the Gothic taste, the painted windows of that form. In the elliptic arch of the door, there is a prismatic lantern of variously tinted glass, containing two large lamps with their reflectors. The light they shed resembles that of a volcano, gloomily glaring. Opposite, on the chimney-piece, a couple of small lamps, in marble reservoirs, assist the prismatic lantern to supply the place of candles, by a light more consonant to the style of the apartment, the pictures it contains of absent friends, and to its aërial music.