OUT-OF-TOWN PLACES 



ties that confront the eye. The situations to 

 which I alkide are upon such range of high- 

 land as to offer — very hkely from the adjoin- 

 ing public road — a similar width of view; 

 but the house-view must have some special 

 consecration of its own — some veil of inter- 

 vening foliage may be, through which the 

 ravishing distance shall come by glimpses; 

 some embowerment of trees, under which, as 

 in a rural framing, the great picture of the 

 rivers and the mountains shall take new sight- 

 liness ; some tortuous walk through impenetra- 

 ble shrubberies, from the midst of whose dim- 

 ness you shall suddenly burst out upon the 

 glory of the far landscape. Such devices are 

 needful not only to qualify the monotony of 

 one unvarying scene, bewildering from its 

 very extent — not only to distinguish the home 

 view from that of every plodder along the 

 highway, but furthermore, and chiefly, to 

 show such traces of art management as shall 

 quicken the zest with which the natural beau- 

 ties, as successively unfolded, are enjoyed. A 

 great scene of mountains, or river, or sea, or 

 plain, is indeed always a great scene ; but in the 

 presence of it a country home is not necessarily 

 a beautiful home. To this end, the art that 

 deals with landscape effect must wed the home 



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