The face of England is still covered with those solid, spacious houses that our ancestors built themselves - too solid to fall down, but too spacious for their descendants to afford. This is the ago of the flat, and a floor space that in the Victorian age would have been thought hardly adequate for a drawing room, and into which the Elizabethans would not have squeezed a bedroom, now suffices for all the needs of many a family entitled to be styled well-to-do. Even if the sort of flat that was so amusingly pictured on the 'Both Sides of the Microphone' page last week is not yet universal, congestion is the rule, and compactness and economy of space are the chief essentials in modern furniture. In this series of talks Mrs. Menzies will describe various schemes for furnishing and also decorating a small flat at a very reasonable cost.