ON THE COLOR OP COUNTRY HOUSES. 259 



wide canopy of heaven. Fortunately fashion, a more powerful 

 teacher of the multitude than the press or the schools, is now setting 

 in the right direction. A few men of taste and judgment, in city 

 and country, have set the example by casting off all connection with 

 harsh colors. What a few leaders do at the first, from a nice sense 

 of harmony in colors, the many will do afterwards, when they see 

 the superior beauty of neutral tints, supported and enforced by the 

 example of those who build and inhabit the most attractive and 

 agreeable houses, and we trust, at no very distant time, one may have 

 the pleasure of travelling over our whole country, without meeting 

 with a single habitation of glaring and offensive color, but every 

 where see something of harmony and beauty. 



