ARCHAEOLOGY AND ART 85 



" In the days of Curzon Lat-Sahib it was done " ; 

 " Behold, Huzoor, the Great Lat-Sahib com- 

 manded, and it rose again from the ground " ; 

 and Indians and Englishmen alike owe him a 

 great debt of gratitude for his timely rescue of 

 many magnificent old Indian buildings and works 

 of art. It is little short of marvellous, even for the 

 East, to find how one man has inspired and ac- 

 complished so much good work in so short a time. 

 It is not to be wondered at that his work stopped 

 short at archaeology; and that though the 

 Mughal gardens were cleared of much accumu- 

 lated overgrowth and rubbish, there has been so 

 far no serious attempt to revive the old garden- 

 craft in its artistic and symbolic aspects. 



The whole effect of the palace square at Agra 

 suffers sadly from the loss of its flowers and 

 fountain jets; as can be realised on comparing 

 the two illustrations, one of the beautiful but 

 empty Anguri Bagh, all its straight lines left 

 exposed in hard monotony, and the illustration 

 taken from an old Indian painting of an evening 

 scene in a Rajputana garden. The latter shows 

 a typically planted palace square. The four 

 dark cypress spires planted at angles of the 

 paths round the little central pavilion, delight- 



