Art Out-of-Doors 



In Europe he should travel if he can, but 

 here he must travel : and only when he has 

 thus learned what kind of work is v\'anted 

 here, and what can well be accomplished 

 here, wull he be fitted to gather useful in- 

 formation abroad. 



He will find many deplorable things along 

 his home-course. But shocking examples 

 are very useful object-lessons if analyzed 

 for their reasons why ; and with a multi- 

 tude of such examples exist many delight- 

 ful things — more, in certain directions, than 

 we can find elsewhere. If we have had but 

 few professed landscape-gardeners, we have 

 had two or three of signal abihty ; and the 

 untutored instinct of our people has some- 

 times worked as simply and fehcitously as it 

 has in England. Only in England, for in- 

 stance, can we find a certain type of close- 

 built village street, with walls embowered 

 in vines and clasped by blossoming fruit- 

 trees, and lovely, odorous cottage-gardens. 

 But only in America can we find the typ- 

 ical New England village, with its deco- 

 rous, isolated vrhite houses flanking broad, 

 turf-bordered streets which lie, like vast 

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