SYLVAN STREETS. 269 
how mistaken, is the belief that zsthetic and sen- 
suous attractions have no practical value! They 
are eminently practical; and yet it needs even the 
eloquent pen of a Quarterly Reviewer to enume- 
rate, for readers of taste and culture, the matter-of- 
fact advantages of his ‘hobby,’ to induce them 
to enrol themselves as his followers in the exercise 
of his gentle craft. 
The great woodlands of our island have almost 
everywhere disappeared before the advance of our 
cities, towns, and villages. Few of these wood- 
lands, indeed, now remain to us. But, in a modi- 
fied degree, we can bring back the woods, and 
make woodlands of our towns. Not only can we, 
by park and garden, introduce green oases into 
the midst of our deserts of bricks and mortar; 
we can fill our towns, both large and small, with 
woodland beauty: so mingling houses and Trees 
as to transform our dusty thoroughfares into 
sylvan streets. 
