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directly or practically instructive to Americans. In the Isle of 

 Wight, on the other hand, are numerous pretty cottages, villas and 

 country houses, almost precisely on a transatlantic scale as to the 

 first cost and the style of living. . For this reason, one who can only 

 learn by seeing the thing done to a scale that he can easily measure, 

 should come to the Isle of Wight to study how to get the most for 

 his money rather than to Chatsworth or Eaton Hall. And it is 

 this kind of rural beauty, the tasteful embellishment of small places, 

 for which the United States will, I am confident, become celebrated 

 in fifty years more. 



