We present our readers, in the Frontispiece for this month, a design for a District School-house. It has at least the merit of simplicity in the plan, and as it is a paralellogram, of economy in construction. An entrance hall, or lobby, opens into a large school room for boys, upon one side, and one for girls on the other. Between these two rooms is a recitation room, which may contain a book case for the school library.

The exterior is bold and picturesque - the style a modification of the Swiss - and well adapted to many sites in our varied rural scenery. The widely over-hanging eaves afford a species of veranda shelter round the whole building.

This style is exceedingly well adapted for a wooden building, and its details are so simple that any country carpenter of intelligence could construct such a schoollhouse without any further working drawings.

As we look upon the rural-church and the district school-house, as contributing more es sentially to the architectural education of the country at large, than any private buildings, we hope, by presenting from time to time, various good models, to assist in banishing the present deformities, which pass by these names, from the face of the rural districts.