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sufficiently reveal. There is in it a character of completeness 

 that is very charming and satisfactory, and the care that has 

 heen lavished upon the house has been carried also into the 

 garden, where the architecture and sculpture are superb and 

 extremely rich in character and detail. 



Garden architecture, as has more than once been remarked 

 in this volume, has been much neglected in English gardens, 

 but it holds a high place in the function of uniting the house 

 with its surroundings to constitute a pleasing and harmonious 

 whole. As the house is, such is the character of the brick or 

 stone work in the garden. It may be stately and formal, 



befitting a classic pile, or it may take a quainter cast and 

 fall into a different picture, with a terrace and a mossy 

 balustrade flecked with sunshine and shadow, and a flight 

 to a lower lawn, seeming wholly appropriate to the battle- 

 ments, pinnacles, and mullioned windows of TuJor and 

 Stuart days. 



A magnificent staircase of Carrara marble, 3oft. wide, 

 lea Is up from the entrance hall at Kingston Lacy, and the 

 house is full of the finest examples of art drawn from the 

 best collections in Europe by the care of successive hands. 

 The pictures are superb, one room being filled, for example, 



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