200 OUT-OF-TOWN PLACES. 



house, with limited grounds, in the foulest suburb of 

 the place. 



Burying Grounds. 



EVERY considerable town requires, or will 

 require at no late day, not only fields for the 

 disport of its living swarms, but other fields (requir- 

 ing exceptional care of their own) for the interment 

 of its throng of dead. Indeed, the living can steal 

 some chance moments of rural enjoyment, by burst- 

 ing into fields and gardens of their neighbors, or by 

 plunging into untamed wilds ; but a man cannot steal 

 a grave : there is no larceny possible to us of some 

 charming spot upon a neighbor's hill-side where our 

 bones may rest. 



I cannot quite share in what seems to be the 

 popular disposition nowadays to make a favorite, if 

 not fashionable drive of the cemetery. That it should 

 be beautiful, that it should carry report of the delight- 

 some things of every season in its flowers, its fading 

 wealth of leaves, its evergreens, I can well under- 

 stand. But that it should be made voyant, inviting 

 chance-comers, offering views of sea or environs, 

 cheating one into the belief that he is in a well-kept 

 garden, and not among graves, lured thither by views 

 or prettinesses of landscape design and not by the 



