Art Out-of-Doors 



must be made, the approach ought, if pos- 

 sible, to be carried to a door which stands 

 in another side. There will be no look of 

 caprice in such an arrangement, for where 

 the front door is, there, of necessity, the 

 road must go. It will not suffice to carry 

 the road to one side, leaving an agreeable 

 expanse of lawn, and then bring it along 

 close by the house to a door in the lawn- 

 front. This is a very common arrangemient 

 but a very bad one. If a road crossing the 

 lawn in full sight of the chief windows and 

 piazzas is offensive, still more so is a road 

 running between the house and the lawn, 

 ^H^^ming a barren streak in the immediate 

 preground of the picture, and preventing 

 that union of the house-foundations with 

 the grass which it is so important to secure. 

 Worse than anything else, however, is the 

 vide sweep we constantly see, where, be- 

 tween house and lawn, a road returns upon 

 itself. No one would ruin a fine painted 

 landscape by pasting a strip or great circle 

 of gray paper over the lower part of the 

 foreground : yet this is just what hundreds 

 of owners do with strips and circles of gray 



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