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which consists of formal figures, rectangular lines, and symmetrical proportions, 
adapted to that portion of a garden wliich is immediately connected v^ith a building 
in the Grecian or Italian style of architecture. Then there is the mode of arrange- 
ment which may be styled the beautiful in gardening, but which some call the 
gardenesque, in which there is a greater variety and irregularity than in the 
preceding, yet much of polish and elegance, and no rudeness, wildness, or rusticity. 
The grand style, again, demands that every thing be on a large scale ; broad and 
noble walks, immense and sweeping glades of lawn, stately avenues, expansive lakes, 
gigantic specimens and huge masses of trees, and, in the distance, a magnificent 
park and plantations, with a prospect that includes nothing but what may be sup- 
posed to be within the limits of the estate. 
Lastly, there is the picturesque style ; of which ruggedness, abruptness of change 
and contrast — all the features we have mentioned as being remote from the beautiful 
— rivers dashing among rocks and forming foaming cataracts ; deep and precipitous 
ravines ; rocky caverns ; rustic bridges, arbours, or cottages ; scathed, half prostrate, 
decaying, and ancient trees ; with the absence of most that is artificial or cultivated ; 
are a few of the principal characteristics. And in naming the picturesque, we 
are naturally led to the book under review. 
This valuable work should be in the hands of every landscape gardener and 
architect ; and, indeed, of every one who has or may have anything to do in laying 
out gardens, or the improvement of scenery. The numerous foot-notes which very 
much interfered with the careful reading of the last edition, are judiciously em- 
bodied in the text of this ; and the frequent and very excellent remarks of the 
Editor are introduced in the same manner, but placed between brackets to distin- 
guish them. They greatly increase the value of the work, which is replete with 
useful instruction relative to the composition of the picturesque in landscape 
gardening, taking the principles laid down by the great masters in painting as a 
guide. We would not be supposed to advocate this before design, or the gardenesque 
style of landscape disposition, but would rather impress how essential a knowledge 
of both is. It is impossible to derive an accurate familiarity with either from 
perusing books in wliich they are attempted to be blended. We would have every 
style investigated separately, and its applicability to particular circumstances or 
sites thoroughly understood. That attained, the professor might fix upon any one 
as the nature of the domain dictated, or so unite the more harmonious peculiarities 
of two or more as to embrace the varied character of a place, and accommodate the 
whole thereto. 
With such an impression, we most cordially welcome this improved Edition of 
Uvedale Price, and sincerely recommend those who fortunately possess Mr. Loudon's 
edition of Repton's Landscape Gardening to procure this. They were contem- 
porary authors ; the two editions now spoken of are of the same size, beautifully 
got up, and well fitted to occupy the same shelf as auxiliaries. The attentive study 
of Uvedale Price will enlarge the ideas, and give just notions of taste in the pictu- 
