Roads and Paths 



has not the chance to turn his eyes for con- 

 solation to a more distant landscape, as he 

 may if he owns a country-place where the 

 foreground is similarly disfigured. 



When horses are kept and a stable stands 

 in the rear of the house, the main doorway 

 should usually be placed in the side of the 

 house. Then all the drive required will be 

 a single stretch, entering the grounds near 

 their outermost angle, and passing the door 

 on the way to the stable. But the arrange- 

 ment we more often see to-day, even in 

 very small grounds, is a driveway cutting 

 through the whole extent of the lawn, pass- 

 ing by the door in the front of the house, 

 then encircling the house to reach the sta- 

 ble, and often having an additional curve to 

 allow visitors to enter and leave the grounds 

 without going back to the stable-yard to 

 turn. 



If there is no stable, but the need for 

 a carriage-approach is nevertheless felt, of 

 course a similar arrangement is again the 

 best — a drive to a door in the side of the 

 house with a turn in front of it or beyond it. 

 But such a need is more apt to be fanciful 



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