The walls of the room are pretty well filled with built-in bookshelves, windows, chimney-piece, and doors, but there is one long wall space for the day bed and another for the old secretary that holds my porcelain figurines.  The room is really quite small, but by making the furniture keep its place against the walls an effect of spaciousness has been obtained.

The walls of the room are painted the palest of egg-shell blue-green.  The woodwork is ivory white, with applied decorations of sculptured white marble.  The floor is entirely covered with a carpet rug of jade green velvet, and there is a smaller Persian rug of the soft, indescribable colors of the Orient.  The day bed, of which I spoke in an earlier paragraph, is covered with an old brocade, gray-green figures on a black ground.  A large armchair is also covered with the brocade, and the window curtains, which cannot be seen in the picture, are of black chintz, printed with birds of pale greens and blues and grays, with beaks of rose-red.

There is always a possibility for rose-red in my rooms, I love it so.  I manage the other colors so that they will admit a chair or a stool or a bowl of rose color.  In this room the two chairs beside the couch are covered with rose-colored damask, and this brings out the rose in the rug and in the chintz, and accents the deep red note of the leathern book-bindings.  The rose red is subordinated to the importance of the book-bindings in this room, but there is still opportunity for its use in so many small things.

In this room, you will notice, I have used open shelves for my books, and the old secretary which was once a combination desk and bookcase, is used for the display of my little treasures of porcelain and china, and its drawers are used for papers and prints.  The built in shelves have cupboards beneath them for the flimsy papers and pamphlets that do not belong on open shelves.  If the same room were pressed into service as a guest room I should use the drawers in the secretary instead of the usual chest of drawers, and the day bed for sleeping.

[Illustration:  MISS MORGAN’S LOUIS XVI. LIT DE REPOS]

The writing-table is placed at right angles to one of the book-filled panels between the front windows.  I have used a writing-table in this room because I like tables better than heavy desks, and because in this small apartment a desk would seem heavy and ponderous.  The fittings of the desk are of dark red leather, like that of many of the book-bindings, and the personal touch that makes the desk mine is a bowl of roses.  Between the two windows in the shallow recess, I have placed an aquarium, a recent acquisition that delights my soul.  The aquarium is simply an oblong glass box mounted on a teak stand, with a tracery of teak carving outlining the box, which is the home of the most gorgeous fan-tailed goldfish.  There are water plants in the box, too, and funny little Chinese temples and dwarf trees.  I love