PREFACE 



That we might see eyes were given us ; and a 

 tongue to tell accurately what we had got to see. 

 It is the alpha and omega of all intellect that man 

 has. No poetry, hardly even that of Goethe, is 

 equal to the true image of reality — had one eyes to 

 see that. — T. Carlyle, Letters to Vamhagen 

 Von Ense. 



The one English thing that has touched 

 the heart of the world is the English 

 garden. Proof of this we have in such 

 noble gardens as the English park at 

 Munich, the garden of the Emperor of 

 Austria at Laxenberg, the Petit Trianon 

 at Versailles, the parks formed of recent 

 years round Paris, and many lovely gardens 

 in Europe and America. The good sense 



