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Ik accordance with our wishes, to see an improvement in the architecture of our school-houses, as expressed in previous numbers of this Journal, we present this month a design by Mr. Caveler, an English architect, which will be found to present soma points worthy of study, in the composition of this class of buildings.

The style is what may be called domestic Gothic, and in picturesque effect is only calculated to harmonise with rural scenery. It is to be built of brick, with stone dressings - a very substantial and excellent mode - and one which, in many parts of this country, would be comparatively economical.

The plan of this school-house embraces a double-school accommodation - one for boys, and another for girls. The total number of pupils provided for is four hundred. Each school-room has a class-room, a lobby for cloaks and hats attached to it, and a separate yard for play ground, in the rear.

Buildings for public instruction, if thus designed in a style calculated to awaken ideas of beauty, fitness and order in the minds of youth, would always help to educate the eye and the feelings in architecture,, while like every other mark of civilization and refinement, they would insensibly elevate the character of all who are brought in contact with them. A boy may learn arithmetic as well in a log hut as in the. most admirably proportioned building; but in the latter he will also be much more likely to learn something of the power of the nobler forms of mere, matter, and their superiority over low and vulgar forms.