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gardens of the Countess Warwick, at Easton Lodge, 
in Essex, possess the same charm, a personal mean- 
ing and significance in the statues and fountains, and 
even in the planting of flower borders. The illus- 
tration on page 83 depicts the general shape of the 
Yaddo Rose Garden, as seen from the upper ter- 
race ; but it does not show how the garden stretches 
down the fine marble steps, past the marble figures of 
Diana and Paris, and along the paths of standard 
Roses, past the shallow fountain which is not so large 
as to obscure what speaks the garden’s story, the 
statue of Christalan, that grand creation in one of 
Mrs. Trask’s idyls, Under King Constantine . This 
heroic figure, showing to full extent the genius of 
the sculptor, William Ordway Partridge, also figures 
the genius of the poet-creator, and is of an inexpres- 
sible and impressive nobility. With hand and arm 
held to heaven, Christalan shows against the back- 
ground of rich evergreens as the true knight of this 
garden of sentiment and chivalry. 
“ The sunlight slanting westward through the trees 
Fell first upon his lifted, golden head. 
Making a shining helmet of his curls, 
And then upon the Lilies in his hand. 
His eyes had a defiant, fearless glow ; 
Against the sombre background of the wood 
He looked scarce human.” 
The larger and more impressive fountain at Yaddo 
is shown on these pages. It is one hundred feet long 
and seventy feet wide, and is in front of the house, 
to the east. Its marble figures signify the Dawn ; 
