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lovers of artistic homes, and the great variety of them renders it 

 almost impossible to specify them in anything like detail. There are 

 also many plans of charming country homes given by way of fuller 

 explanation. 



Besides what may be termed the ordinary externararchitectural 

 views of houses, there are many choice little bits showing dining-rooms, 

 drawing-rooms, entrance halls, staircases, porches, garden gates, lily 

 pools, paved gardens, entrances, courtyards, terraces, pergolas, and 

 even wall gardens — in fact, every possible feature that can be dealt 

 with by the architect called in by an owner to construct a comfortable 

 and artistic dwelling with suitable surroundings. 



In the introduction we have a general survey of the development 

 and character of Mr. Lutyens' work, and from it we learn that he has 

 been assisted in the purely horticultural part of his labours by Miss 

 Jekyll, whose knowledge and experience in the gardening art have 

 largely contributed to the successful results thus obtained. Indeed, 

 there are some views of Miss Jekyll's home at Munstead Wood on which 

 Mr. Lutyens began to work in 1896. 



The development of his outlook had, as we are told, its starting-point 

 in what may be roughly called the picturesque manner, and the period 

 covered by the writer is from 1890 to 1913, during which time much 

 valuable and interesting work has been accomphshed. The letterpress 

 is divided into twenty-six chapters, preceded by an introduction. 

 Most of these chapters deal with several of the houses designed or 

 restored by Mr. Lutyens ; some of them, however, are devoted to one 

 only. They include such subjects as the following : Crooksbury ; 

 Ruckmans ; Garden at Woodside, Chenies ; Sullingstead ; Munstead 

 Wood ; Fulbrook ; Orchards, Godalming ; Goddards ; Tigbourne 

 Court ; Littlecroft, Guildford ; Overstrand Hall ; The Pleasaunce, 

 Overstrand ; Deanery Garden, Sonning ; Fisher's Hill, Woking ; 

 Homewood, Knebworth ; Abbotswood, Gloucestershire ; Marshcourt, 

 Hants ; Little Thakeham, Sussex ; PapiUon Hall, Leicestershire ; 

 The Hoo, WiUingdon ; Daneshill ; Monkton, Singleton ; Lindisfarne 

 Castle, Holy Island ; Gardens at Hestercombe ; Ashby St. Ledgers ; 

 Heathcote, Ilkley ; Lambay, Ireland ; Great Maytham, Kent ; 

 Folly Farm ; Hampstead Garden suburb, and elsewhere. So varied 

 and comprehensive is the scope that there are also designs for town 

 buildings, public monuments, exhibition buildings, &c. 



It will be seen from the foregoing remarks that in the work under 

 notice architecture claims the premier place, and that garden design 

 occupies a subsidiary one, as it naturally should do in such a pubhca- 

 tion ; but, at any rate, there is sufficient material in it to claim the atten- 

 tion of the gardener, be he amateur or professional. The photographic 

 process by which the illustrations have been done is a beautifully 

 exact one, and details are clearly and effectively dehneated. That 

 gardens and houses can be and are welded together into a harmonious 

 whole is a fact amply demonstrated both by the text and by the accom- 

 panying illustrations throughout the book, and we have in our own 



