Art Out-of-Doors 
must be made, the approach ought, if pos- 
sible, to be carried to a door which stands 
in another side. There will be no look of 
caprice in such an arrangement, for where 
the front door is, there, of necessity, the 
road must go. It will not suffice to carry 
the road to one side, leaving an agreeable 
expanse of lawn, and then bring it along 
close by the house to a door in the lawn- 
front. This is a very common arrangement 
but a very bad one. If a road crossing the 
lawn in full sight of the chief windows and 
piazzas is offensive, still more so is a road 
running between the house and the lawn, 
forming a barren streak in the immediate 
foreground of the picture, and preventing 
;hat union of the house-foundations with 
the grass which it is so important to secure. 
Worse than anything else, however, is the 
vide sweep we constantly see, where, be- 
tween house and lawn, a road returns upon 
itself. No one would ruin a fine painted 
landscape by pasting a strip or great circle 
of gray paper over the lower part of the 
foreground ; yet this is just what hundreds 
of owners do with strips and circles of gray 
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