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himself. When all the country is in a wild state, he sees the operations 

 of mind in formal works characterised by straight lines and geometrical 

 shapes; in short, in destroying the features of nature: when all the coun- 

 try is, as at present, laid out in straight lines, in roads and hedges, he 

 recognises refined mind in the imitations of natural features exemplified in 

 our parks and pleasure-grounds. Art is as much concerned in the one case 

 as in the other ; the difference in the effect aimed at is merely the result of 

 a different degree of civilisation. 



The house at Albury is a plain unpretending building, in the Grecian 

 style ; the floors of the principal rooms are of abele, and they are furnished 

 with abundance of books. Some additional rooms have lately been added 

 in a Gothic tower, in the manner recommended by Gilbert Laing Meason. 

 We have no objection to this sort of addition ; but we should have pre- 

 ferred more of the Italian school of the middle ages in the tower, thinking 

 the style would have harmonised better with the plainness of the main 

 body of the mansion. Something more in the style of Deepdene would 

 have pleased us better. At the same time, we merely give this as our own 

 taste : Mr. Drummond is right in following his. 



Ml". Drummond, we were told, builds very comfortable cottages in different 

 parts of his extensive property in this neighbourhood, adchng land to them 

 to the extent of half an acre or upwards, and seldom charging more than 3/. 

 of rent. This is being more liberal than most people could afford to be ; 

 but it is a proof, if proof were wanting to any person who has heard 

 the character of Mr. Drummond, of the great extent of his benevolence. It 

 is not to be expected that such landlords should become general ; but 

 were only a part of Mr. Drummond's practice imitated by extensive 

 landowners, very different, indeed, would be the comfort and happiness 

 of the farmers and labourers, and the appeai'ance of their farms and cot- 

 tage gardens. 



Sutton Placcy near Ripley. — April 6. The house is said to have been 

 built by the brewer of Henry VIII. ; and it is remarkable for the jambs and 

 lintels of the doors, the mullions and tracery of the windows, and, indeed, 

 all that is usually in stone about a Gothic house of that era, being formed 

 of a sort of brick or baked earth. There is also a garden-house in which 

 this material has been used in framing the door ; and we had thus an op- 

 portunity of minutely inspecting it, and finding it to have been kiln-burnt in 

 the same manner as brick. The gardens and grounds are utterly neglected ; 

 the standard apple trees are bending under a load of white lichen, and the 

 poplars and lime trees are eaten up with mistletoe. We endeavoured to 

 procure a truncheon from a poplar tree with the mistletoe on it, in order to 

 plant it in Mr. Donald's arboretum ; and we should have succeeded, if we 

 had had leisure to dii-ect the search for such a truncheon, instead of leav- 

 ing that to another. Near the house is a very old mulberry tree, which 

 must have fallen down on one side above a century ago, as the branches 

 from the prostrate trunk have all the appearance of old trees. 



You72g^s Nursery, Alilford, near Godalming. — April 7. A small local 

 nursery cannot be supposed to offer much interest; nevertheless, the 

 grounds here were well stocked. Mr. Young's cottage and seed-shop is 

 very pleasantly situated, and near it are some beds of herbaceous plants 

 containing a few good species. In the pits were camellias, and a number 

 of half-hardy articles, with some good auriculas. Considering the season 

 of the year, the grounds were more free from weeds than some London 

 nurseries which we could name. 



Stroud House, the Misses Perry. — Ajiril 7. The order and neatness of 

 the grounds about the house were, as usual, perfect ; and the primroses, 

 violets, wood anemones, barren strawberry, and Ficaria ?'anunculoides, in 

 the copse, most beautiful. We saw the little manufactory of Epinal hats 

 conducted in the house of Miss Perry's gardener ; the mode of manufacture 



