Art Out-of-Doors 
determining how money and pains shall be 
bestowed. 
Irrespective of the size of the community 
which it must serve, a modern American 
cemetery is sure to be a rural cemetery. 
But we scarcely ever see one in which this 
fundamental idea has been consistently ex- 
pressed and then carefully preserved. Nat- 
ure is asked to take our dead in charge, and 
then we do a thousand things to ruin the re- 
pose, the sanctity and beauty which she is 
ready to provide. We cut too many roads 
and paths, giving the burial-ground the look 
of a pleasuring-place rather than the look of 
a place where the living go to visit the dead. 
We make ample allowance of space to each 
purchaser of land, partly that his graves 
may not be crowded and partly that they 
may not destroy the unity and quietness of 
the landscape ; and then we nullify our 
efforts by enclosing the lots with heavy 
railings, and by building huge and showy 
monuments. We think we want a natural 
landscape, and then we plant the ceme- 
tery— not the private lots alone, but also the 
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