Art Out-of-Doors 
water to the naturalistic opposite shore of 
the lake. 
Each of these prospects gains in charm 
by its artistic opposition to the other ; and 
even when we are far away from the ter- 
race, the Mall plays a necessary part in the 
scene. It was needed in such a park to 
accommodate great crowds of pedestrians ; 
and what is needed in a park must, if skil- 
fully introduced, increase its beauty by in- 
creasing the force and truth of its expres- 
sion. The Mall gives just the one strong 
touch of confessed art which was required, 
in the centre of this big naturalistic pleasure- 
ground, to prove that it is a public pleas- 
ure - ground and not a stretch of pastoral 
country or a private domain with an exces- 
sive number of roads and paths. It was 
needed to emphasize the artistic character of 
the general scheme, and to prepare the eye 
for such other formalities and artificialities 
as are required in a much frequented public 
resort. It says in unmistakable accents that 
the whole scheme is non-natural ; that the 
purpose of the neighboring landscape-pict- 
ures is not to make people believe that they 
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