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this problem in the utmost sympathy. It is not only 

 the character of the buildings but the selection of the 

 site, as before pointed out, that demands their co-oper- 

 ation in the interests of their client. 



Here again in Hints on Landscape Gardening, chap- 

 ter iv., Prince Piickler's words of advice are pertinent 

 as illustrating one side of the question : 



"In general, a certain irregularity is preferable 

 in buildings in a park, as being more in conformity 

 with nature and more picturesque. A temple de- 

 voted to a cult, a theatre, a museum devoted to art, 

 doubtless demand symmetry and a more severe 

 style, but the mansion or villa gain by greater 

 irregularity, in comfort as well as picturesqueness. 

 This same principle appears in the designs of the 

 ancient villas and country houses, as we may gather 

 from the ruins. The most noteworthy example is 

 perhaps the villa of Hadrian near Tivoli. Traces 

 of this principle are also found in the Italy of the 

 Renaissance, in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries. 

 Buildings half hidden by others, large and small 

 windows on the same face of the building, side doors, 

 projecting and receding comers, occasionally a high 

 bare wall with a richly ornamented cornice, roofs 

 jutting out and balconies unsymmetrically placed, 

 in short, everywhere a great but by no means unhar- 

 monious irregularity, which pleases the fancy because 

 the reason for every departure from regularity is 

 evident or may be surmised. " 



