APPENDIX. 



STRICTURES ON MR. REPTON's MODE OF USING SLIDES AND 

 SKETCHES, AND ON II IS MANNER OF OPERATING WITH 

 THE PRINCIPAL MATERIALS OF LANDSCAPE. 



INTRODUCTION. 



In the foregoing Work, I have occasionally offered some remarks both on 

 Mr. Repton's writings and his alterations upon Residences. In this Ap- 

 pendix I do not propose to enter into a minute examination of the latter;, 

 but merely to point out what appears to me to be the grand errors 

 in that author's practice and directions. In making these observations 

 I have advanced nothing in opposition to candour and truth. At 

 the same time, as Mr. Repton in his writings displays the highest 

 opinion of his own merits, and an unfair contempt for his cotemporary 

 professors of modern landscape gardening ; as he arrogates unmerited 

 distinction as an artist, and claims the important right of " guiding 

 the taste and improving the scenery of his country" * ; and as I consider 

 this taste in many things as false judgment, I consequently have been 

 more particular in my criticisms, and more decided in my conclusions re- 



* " And while you studied to raise the glory, and secure the best interests, of the 

 country ; I was content to guide its taste and improve its scenery." 



" Odd Whims and Miscellanies," Dedication to Mr. Windham, page 9.. 



