Art Out-of-Doors 



determining how money and pains shall be 

 bestowed. 



Irrespective of the size of the community 

 which it must serve, a modern American 

 cemetery is sure to be a rural cemetery. 

 But we scarcely ever see one in which this 

 fundamental idea has been consistently ex- 

 pressed and then carefully preserved. Nat- 

 ure is asked to take our dead in charge, and 

 then we do a thousand things to ruin the re- 

 pose, the sanctity and beauty which she is 

 ready to provide. We cut too many roads 

 and paths, giving the burial-ground the look 

 of a pleasuring-place rather than the look of 

 a place where the living go to visit the dead. 

 We make ample allowance of space to each 

 purchaser of land, partly that his graves 

 may not be crowded and partly that they 

 may not destroy the unity and quietness of 

 the landscape; and then we nuUify our 

 efforts by enclosing the lots with heavy 

 railings, and by building huge and sho\vy 

 monuments. We think we want a natural 

 landscape, and then we plant the ceme- 

 tery — not the private lots alone, but also the 



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