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GARDENS OLD AND NEW. 



delighting 



much, as may 



be seen by his 



letters, in the 



beauty and 



seclusion of 



the place, and 



h - was in the 



neighbour- 



liood in 1639, 



w h e n war 



with the Scots 



had broken 



out. He wrote 



to Sir Harry 



Vane in April 



of that year 



that all was 



quiet there, 



but he hoped 



if the Scottish 



moved " to 



give them 



such a heat in 



their deaths 



as the)- never 



had since their coming forth of Scotland.'' The forces at his 



disposal were inadequate, and the work not easy, " but," he said, 



"the best of it is the brawn of a lark is better than the carcase 



of a kite, and the virtue of one loyal subject more than of a 



thousand traitors." Later on Gawihorpe Hall was bought by 



the notorious Sir John Cutler, who is so bitterly satirised for 



his rapacity and meanness by Pope in the " Moral Essays." 



The magnificent seat of the Earl of Harewood was built on 

 the adjacent site by the first Baron Harewood, Henry Lascelles, 

 who laid the foundaticn-stone in the year 1759. The 

 designs were by Adam and by Carr of York, and the mansion 

 is an excellent illustr tion of the woi k of Cirr, who built so 

 many of the important classic mansions of Yorkshire. As will 

 be ,->een from our pictures, the character of the place is derived 



from a free 

 adaptation of 

 the Corin- 

 thian style 

 applied to 

 domestic pur- 

 poses. 



Fergusson 

 says of it that 

 it is one cf 

 those houses 

 which are so 

 thoroughly 

 Eng ish and 

 aristocratic 

 that " one is 

 inclined to 

 overlook their 

 delects of 

 style in con- 

 sequence of 

 their re^pect- 

 ability and 

 the associ- 

 ations they 

 call up." The 



extensive gardens and grounds were laid out by "Capability" 

 Brown, but they have since been altered and enlarged, and ro 

 longer bear the exclusive mark of his style. We encounter 

 his name in the annals of the gardens of English noblemen 

 even more often, as someone has remarked, than we find the 

 handicraft of Grinling Gibbons or one of his imitators in the 

 internal adornments of their abodes. Many alterations were 

 carried out by Sir Charles Barry. The great double terrace 

 was formed in 1843, and is a very splen iid featurj of the 

 place, and we do not know where better classic tc-rracing can 

 be found than is depicted in our illus' rations. The whole of 

 the architectural and sculptured features in the gar en are, 

 indeed, very striking, and remarka ly good in their details. 

 The statuary is nowh j re obtrusive, but holds the right place 



SPHINX. 



THE CIKCULAR FOUNTAIN. 



