THE GARDENS OF ITALY. 
1 7 1.— OAKS IN THE PLEASAUNCE. 
planted in the back fore- 
court, are charming 
masses of tangled 
branches, extending the 
lines of the building with 
solid masses of bocage 
(Fig. 171). There is an 
effective view of the 
main front fro m the 
lower level in sharp 
perspective which does 
justice to the mass of the 
centre block, which is 
about one h u n d r e d 
and sixty feet in 
extent of frontage alone 
(Fig, 169). A. T. B. 
President de Brosse, 
in the delightful and witty 
letters w hich portray 
170 .— BRONZE FOUNTAIN SHIP, VILLA ALDOBR.ANDINI. Rome in the middle of 
the eighteenth century, gives an entertaining account of the rather puerile forms of amusement 
then in vogue. After an enthusiastic description of the Belvedere, as Villa Aldobrandini 
was then called, he describes groups of statues, some of which have now disappeared— a faun 
and centaur, the nine Muses and Apollo— all joining in a concert on musical instruments played 
