Art Out-of-Doors 
larger estates which are being established 
toward the rocky end of the promontory, or 
of the more spacious of the grounds which 
front upon the avenues. But scores of 
Newport houses which are called cottages, 
but in reality are large and sometimes very 
pompous villas or even mansions, stand in 
very small grounds, and here some degree 
of formality certainly seems desirable. Here 
architecture certainly dominates the general 
picture, and if the grounds are to be appro- 
priate and to assert their own importance 
they may well be given an architectonic 
character. 
What are such grounds to-day ? If some 
measure of taste has illumined their guard- 
ians, they are, perhaps, green little lawns 
cut by one or two lines of gravel and encir- 
cled by naturalistic groups of trees and 
shrubs. Then they are pretty in them- 
selves, but not dignified enough, not con- 
sciously artistic enough — I may say, not ar- 
tificial enough — to befit their service as 
adjuncts to a large costly house and as fore- 
grounds over which, from the house, one 
sees the rigid lines of the street and the 
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