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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 

 fir^t costan^ 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 hoiy to get the most for 

 his money — rather than to Chatsworth or Eaton Hall. A^d 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. 



