OUT-OF-TOWN PLACES 



conceived new lessons of taste, it is his duty 

 so to illustrate them as to make them command 

 the acceptance of the multitude. He has no 

 right to ignore the onlook of the world, and be 

 careless if the world condemns or approves. 



A high railway embankment traversing the 

 low lands of a country estate, if at a good re- 

 move from the homestead, is not so awkward 

 a matter to deal with as might at first be sup- 

 posed. A few years of well-tended growth in 

 a forest screen may be made to exclude it al- 

 together; but care should be taken lest such 

 screen, by its uniformity, should present the 

 same tame outlines with the embankment it- 

 self. To avoid this, the woody plantation 

 should flow down in little promontories of 

 shrubbery upon the flat ; it should have its open 

 bays upon the embankment itself, disclosing at 

 intervals a glimpse of the passing trains; and, 

 above all, the bridge or culvert, which keeps 

 good the water-courses of the land, should be 

 distinctly indicated, and might have its simple 

 decorative features. 



All this, if picturesque effect only is aimed 

 at: but if it be desirable to utilize such mon- 

 ster embankment, it may be remembered that 

 its shelter, if looking to the south, would al- 

 most create a summer climate of its own, and 



