Art Out-of-Doors 
tressed by a sight of the progeny it has en- 
gendered. 
In certain places and for certain purposes 
the use of bowlders, whether large or small, 
is not only allowable but praiseworthy. It 
is both sensible and appropriate to use them, 
for example, in the foundations or the base- 
ment of a country house on land where they 
abound and can be had at little cost and 
trouble. But even in such spots as this it 
is seldom desirable that a house should be 
wholly built of them, for we do not want an 
American country home to wear the unre- 
fined and ponderous aspect which the unal- 
loyed employment of them gives. 
In other parts of the country one may 
wisely use, instead of bowlders and for a 
similar purpose, stones roughly split from 
neighboring granite-ledges ; but, again, and 
for the same reasons, it is seldom well thus 
to construct an entire house. We want sim- 
plicity and we want solidity, but we do not 
want coarseness or the affectation of sim- 
plicity. A house with an interior such as 
every American demands, made comfortable 
by a hundred ingenious devices, and beauti- 
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