Art Out-of-Doors 
art — if they produce this effect. It is an ar- 
tistic mistake to make too palpable an at- 
tempt to disguise the utilitarian character of 
a road as a means of transit from one given 
point to another ; but it is an artistic triumph 
to make it look as though, while affording 
such transit with reasonable directness, it had 
chanced to follow a line that is beautiful 
too. Of course, while the careless observer 
will be deceived by the apparent natural- 
ness, the student of art will know that 
chance has had nothing to do with the mat- 
ter ; but his eye will accept the appearance 
of happy accident, and his mind will enjoy 
it all the more for knowing that the hand 
of an intelligent man has been at work. 
But to make the curves of a drive look 
natural it is not sufficient that they should 
have some visible reason for existing. The 
objects which supply the reason must them- 
selves look natural, or the artificiality of the 
whole arrangement will at once be plain. 
To throw up a hillock or plant a tree or a 
group of trees or shrubs in a spot where it 
will deflect the road will be futile unless it 
looks as though, for other reasons, it ought 
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