Roads and Paths 
has not the chance to turn his eyes for con- 
solation to a more distant landscape, as he 
may if he owns a country-place where the 
foreground is similarly disfigured. 
When horses are kept and a stable stands 
in the rear of the house, the main doorway 
should usually be placed in the side of the 
house. Then all the drive required will be 
a single stretch, entering the grounds near 
their outermost angle, and passing the door 
on the way to the stable. But the arrange- 
ment we more often see to-day, even in 
very small grounds, is a driveway cutting 
through the whole extent of the lawn, pass- 
ing by the door in the front of the house, 
then encircling the house to reach the sta- 
ble, and often having an additional curve to 
allow visitors to enter and leave the grounds 
without going back to the stable-yard to 
turn. 
If there is no stable, but the need for 
a carriage-approach is nevertheless felt, of 
course a similar arrangement is again the 
best— a drive to a door in the side of the 
house with a turn in front of it or beyond it. 
But such a need is more apt to be fanciful 
