Art Out-of-Doors 
the term in its best sense), a franker arti- 
ficiality. 
Almost all work is done in this manner in 
our parks. Their driveways are not con- 
structed like country roads of even the bet- 
ter sort ; their lawns are not left as fields 
of untended grass ; nor are their shrubberies 
allowed to grow with the wild luxuriance 
which is so beautiful beside a rural high- 
way. The -engineer and the horticulturist 
show, in our parks, the highest level to 
which modern science and art have at- 
tained, and the architect should work in a 
spirit similar to theirs. Structures which 
look rough, casual, almost barbaric, and af- 
fectedly simple, are not appropriate in a care- 
fully tended pleasure-ground planted with 
exotic trees and flowers, and bisected by 
scientifically built and neatly curbed roads, 
even though we may know that as much 
thought and pains have been spent on their 
construction as if the outcome had been 
more patently artistic and refined. 
Central Park was laid out before the pres- 
ent taste for bowlders and rough-hewn stones 
had developed, and in it one may study the 
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