Art Out-of-Doors 



principles of catholic good taste. Jager's is, 

 perhaps, the best historical work, although it 

 hardly touches upon early periods, and is not 

 altogether trustworthy with regard to later 

 ones. In the pages of Garden and Fo7'cst 

 (Vols. 11. and III., 1889 and 1890) I tried 

 myself to sketch an outline of the history of 

 the art of gardening, and covered, as best 

 I could, the earlier periods, about which 

 little (indeed I may say nothing of a de- 

 tailed and systematic sort) had been writ- 

 ten. For later times the materials are much 

 more abundant, but the day has not yet 

 come when I could carry on my little survey 

 so as to cover them also. 



As to books which inculcate a loving ob- 

 servation of natural beauty, I must cite again 

 those of Thoreau especially, and of Jefferies 

 and Burroughs ; refer to Wordsworth and to 

 Emerson \ note Sir John Lubbock's Beau- 

 ties of Nature ' ' and Professor Shaler's 



Aspects of the Earth and add the names 

 of Charles C. Abbott, William Hamilton 

 Gibson, Bradford Torrey, Hamilton Wright 

 j\Iabie, and Wilson Flagg — all American 

 writers of to-day. Valuable help tovrard 



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