The Artist 



whether his problem be to build a house 

 or to lay out a park or garden, is very 

 complicated, involving outlays, not only 

 for actual construction, but for prepara- 

 tory study, superintendence, and the ofQce- 

 work of subordinates, which are rarely 

 taken into account by the client, who 

 thinks he has only to pay for stone and 

 brick, soil and trees, and their actual 

 manipulation. Every change from the plan 

 first settled upon brings a new necessity 

 for such outlays, even if it does not make 

 needful the undoing of work already ac- 

 complished, or the adoption of a scheme 

 intrinsically more costly. ^^He keeps ab- 

 solutely within his estimates if you do not 

 change your mind," I heard a client say 

 of a well-known architect not long ago, 

 ^ ' but he is very extravagant if you change 

 it." The truth was that her change of 

 mind had meant the need for renewed 

 study on the architect's part as well as 

 more expensive features in the house. 



The only way to keep within the sum 

 you have named," rephed one of her 

 hearers, ^' is to go abroad as soon as the 



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