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if ever inclined to intercept the view, by irregular pruning, 

 not clipping with the shears. Should a walk run immediately 

 within them, if they are not high enough to cover it perfectly, 

 it can readily be kept down a foot or two lower at such parts. 



Originality, perhaps, may not be deemed attainable while 

 due regard is paid to the requirements of law. Rules are not, 

 however, made to fetter, but merely to guide. A writer of 

 fiction is not prohibited from representing character in a 

 wonderfully developed and exaggerated manner. He is only 

 forbidden from caricaturing it. Developments and extrava- 

 gancies that are according to nature are in fact among the 

 greatest merits of a work of fiction. They are at once more 

 exciting and more elevating. A celebrated artist is repre- 

 sented to have replied to a brother of the easel, who was 

 contemplating one of his mystic productions, and complain- 

 ing that he had seen nothing in nature at all resembling it, 

 "True, but don't you wish you could?" 



With respect to all other principles, in which there are no 

 apparent repulsions, the means of combining them will be 

 too obvious to need describing. They can therefore be dealt 

 with or embodied in a place as its peculiar nature or the incli- 

 nations of the owner may best warrant. 



