HAT can be more^appropriate as a decorativo 

 attribute to a house of a highly architectural 

 character, than a few judiciously selected and arranged 

 specimens of the sculptor's art. " Poh I" says some 

 blunt objector, in his enthusiasm for oaks and elms ; " what con- 

 geniality of purpose is expressed by nude figures, perpetually 

 staring down one's garden walks, or stupidly performing sentinel 

 duty, perched on walls ; or vases that afford hospital treatment for 

 consumptive plants, that become bilious from envjang their more 

 fortunate congeners, who are rioting in a profuseness of mother 

 earth. Do not indulge," he continues, " any such barbarous preju- 

 dice ; do not desecrate nature's work with the morbid fancies and 

 handicraft of fellows who go to classic Italy, and return with long 

 hair and unseated brains. No, no ! let them who will, worship 

 images, the creations of distempered imaginations — I am one of 

 those who think with the poet, 



' That Nature unadorned 's adorned the most.' " 

 Quite a tirade, and a specious argument, too ; pitfalls for ama- 

 teur improvers ; fogyism spitting upon the sacred fires of genius, 

 in a vain attempt to quench them. Statuary or architectural em- 

 bellishments of any description, would, we admit, be ridiculous 



