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and there around the best sides of a house, the intervals being 

 wholly blocked up with something beyond the owner's ter- 

 ritory and control. Only let it be established that these 

 glimpses or partial views of outlying beauties are those most 

 proper to the accident of having but a small garden, that 

 they best accord with its necessary internal arrangements, 

 and most forcibly enhance its own apparent size, and so far 



Fig. 13. Treatment of Flat Foreground. 



from such conditions being the subjects of chagrin and vexa- 

 tion they will be hailed rather as felicitous and appropriate. 

 What a person guided by the highest taste would endeavor 

 to effect were there no restrictions and impediments, it can 

 surely be no disadvantage to another to be compelled to sub- 

 mit to. 



In its fitness for awakening and fixing the attention, the 

 separation of a country scene into several minor portions, 



