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garden, not far from Hawthornden, with cliff and 

 brook and water and bridge and tangles of wild- 

 wood all so caught by the landscape designer and 

 so strung along the foot-ways he had planted, that 

 delight was unceasing; and when I asked for a 

 sketch of its meandering over that broken surface, it 

 presented such an array of tame lines, and meaning- 

 less curvatures and violent crooks as to express 

 nothing of the grace which on the grounds themselves 

 flowed over, and made constant enchantment. 



A Sunny House. 



~T"TT~E will suppose that Mr. Urban is thoroughly 

 * satisfied with his garden and grounds that 

 he finds his newly planted trees growing apace that 

 his Southdowns are all that an accomplished grazier 

 could desire ; but the old house becomes at last a 

 weariness. Not because it is old ; nor yet because it 

 is comparatively small so small that he has to billet, 

 from time to time, a bachelor visitor in a little loft 

 of his tool-house ; but it has no wide and open front- 

 age to the sun. He insists that the new one, of 

 which he projects the building out of the rough 

 material from his cliff, shall have at least a glimpse 

 of southern sunshine in every habitable room below. 



