Art Out-of-Doors 
niously together, and disengaged from encum- 
bering details, were she able to make pleasure- 
grounds instead of wild landscapes merely. 
He would respect, preserve, heighten, accen- 
tuate, civilize, and yet poetize the natural 
character of the special site he had chosen, 
and thus would produce, not only a good 
work of art but one with a special, local, 
personal charm, inimitable anywhere else. 
And this is just what has been done, by 
an artist-in-private, with the place I know 
on the shores of Buzzard’s Bay. It lies very 
beautifully at the head of the bay, and its 
water-front, measured in and out along its 
little headlands and coves, is some six miles 
in length. When it came into its present 
owner’s hands it was partly farm-land and 
partly thick second-growth forest, the woods 
fringing almost all the little beaches, and, 
after the lovely local manner, coming down 
to the very sand with a tangle of shrubs and 
vines. The house was already built. It is 
very ugly, and no attempt has been made to 
mitigate its ugliness by planting. But it 
fortunately stands on just the right spot, and 
when a better one replaces it, a few native 
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