2O2 Gleanings in Old Garden Literature. 



and among such there was no man more 

 conspicuous than Brown, or, as he was usually 

 called, Capability Brown. This is what 

 Walpole has to say about the latter : 



" It was fortunate for this country and Mr. Kent 

 that he was succeeded by a very able master ; and did 

 living artists come within my plan, I should be glad to 

 do justice to Mr. Brown ; but he may be a genius by 

 being reserved for some abler pen." 



The original English was completed in 

 1770; but Brown had been dead some 

 years when it appeared with the French 

 version, for the first time, in 1785. 



I hope that I have seemed to justify my long 

 detention of the reader with the Strawberry- 

 Hill volume. It was its worth and virtue as 

 a link between two ages, which tempted me 

 to accord to it a separate chapter, rather than 

 any intrinsic merit, which I had been able to 

 discern in its pages. For in its treatment it 

 is flimsy enough, and in point of style it is 

 disagreeably affected and artificial. 



