Art Out-of-Doors 
In Europe he should travel if he can, but 
here he must travel ; and only when he has 
thus learned what kind of work is wanted 
here, and what can well be accomplished 
here, will he be fitted to gather useful in- 
formation abroad. 
He will find many deplorable things along 
his home-course. But shocking examples 
are very useful object-lessons if analyzed 
for their reasons why ; and with a multi- 
tude of such examples exist many delight- 
ful things — more, in certain directions, than 
we can find elsewhere. If we have had but 
few professed landscape-gardeners, we have 
had two or three of signal ability ; and the 
untutored instinct of our people has some- 
times worked as simply and felicitously as it 
has in England. Only in England, for in- 
stance, can we find a certain type of close- 
built village street, with walls embowered 
in vines and clasped by blossoming fruit- 
trees, and lovely, odorous cottage-gardens. 
But only in America can we find the typ- 
ical New England village, with its deco- 
rous, isolated white houses flanking broad, 
turf-bordered streets which lie, like vast 
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