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ploughs, the sieve, the fan, and the sheaves and heaps of 

 golden grain. He eulogizes the domestic animals of a farm, 

 and considers them as indispensable ornaments to a landscape, 

 which is cold and desolate without them. In fine, the whole 

 poem is written with a deep feeling of what is most interest- 

 ing in landscape, and a full understanding of the ridiculous. 

 It is superior in poetical merit to Mason's " English Garden," 

 but the translation is written in very slovenly metre, and 

 abounds in expressions which do not give the full meaning 

 of the author, leaving the reader to find it out by deduction. 

 We will conclude with the following beautiful eulogy on the 

 farm : — 



" The farm ! what joys that single word can give ! 

 What warm emotions in my breast revive ! 

 The golden age again resumes the year; 

 The harvests, orchards, pastoral joys appear : 

 Those scenes adored in youth, life's golden age. 

 Hark ! how the birds our listening ears engage ? 

 I hear the wheels that roll abundance round, 

 And flails in cadence falling on the ground. 

 Adorn these scenes ; but let not great expense 

 There raise a palace of magnificence. 

 A simpler elegance will grace the farm ; 

 Thus, like an eclogue, will it know to charm. 

 Since luxury affronts the rural gods, 

 Banish it ever from their loved abodes." 



EUROPEAN PARKS, NO. VII. 



BY HOWARD DANIELS, ARCHITECT, N. Y. 

 SUYDENHAM PALACE, PARK AND GARDENS. 



These grounds are undoubtedly the finest of their kind in 

 England, and probably in the world, and furnish a brilliant 

 example of what can be done in a short time, by plenty of 

 means, under the direction of one of the most skilful land- 

 scape gardeners in the world. 



The styles chosen are the Italian for the gardens in the 

 immediate vicinity of the palace, and the natural, or what is 



