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brackets, round-headed windows with balconies, character- 
istic porch, and other leading features of this style. 
[Fig. 64. Gate Lodge in. the Italian style.] 
Mr. Repton has stated it as a principle in the composition 
of residences, that neither the house should be visible from 
the entrance, nor the entrance from the house, if there be 
sufficient distance between them to make the approach 
through varied grounds, or a park, and not immediately into 
a court-yard. 
Entrance lodges, and indeed, all small ornamental build- 
ings should be supported, and partially concealed, by trees 
and foliage ; naked walls, in the country, hardly admitting 
of an apology in any case, but especially when the building 
is ornamental, and should be considered part of a whole, 
grouping with other objects in rural landscape. 
Note. — To readers who desire to cultivate a taste fcr jural architecture, we 
take pleasure in recommending the following productio s of the English press. 
Loudon’s Encyclopedia of Cottage , Farm , and Villa Architecture , a volume replete 
with information on every branch of the subject; Robinson’s Rural Architecture , 
and Designs for Ornamental Villas ; Lugar’s Villa Architecture ; Goodwin’s 
Rural Architecture ; Hunt’s Picturesque Domestic Architecture , and Examples of 
