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PARK AND CCMCTCRY. 
affairs the New England mind might fully realize 
that the beautiful 2s useful. I know that it is urged, 
and truly so, that in this country we have no re- 
sources to expend for civic decoration, except those 
derived from self-imposed taxation; but even this 
difference between European and American cities 
does not alter the fact that civic decoration pays, 
that beauty brings dividends into the city treasury. 
“The history of the park movement in American 
cities shows that civic decoration attracts culture and 
refinement, wealth and plenty. Park cities are 
cities to which money tends. Thousands of people 
establish their residences in such cities because of 
the added pleasures of life and of the opportunities 
to display their wealth in finely situated houses 
and in rich equipages upon the park driveways.” 
American Cemeteries are Pagan. 
IMPRESSIONS OF A FOREIGN VISITOR. 
The impression was deeply marked upon my 
mind when two years ago I first had the opportu- 
nity of looking through several American cemeter- 
ies and was intensified the other day when I spent 
an afternoon in Greenwood. I have seen American 
cemeteries in New England, around Chicago, in 
many inland places, as well as those which are dot- 
ted around Brooklyn on Long Island, and I speak 
of Greenwood as being, not so much a fair speci- 
men of them all, as rather a model, typical of that 
which the other cemeteries aspire to be. 
Let me say first, that in all respects except the 
one of which I shall speak in hostile criticism, Ameri- 
can cemeteries compare mostfavorably with those of 
the old world. It appears that in their inception 
much more ground was available for them than we 
have to spare for such purposes on the Eastern side 
of the Atlantic, and great advantage has been taken 
of this extensive area and of all natural inequalities 
of surface which break the monotony of a landscape; 
whilst more has been done probably in the way of 
artificially produced hills and valleys with lakelets 
along them to improve the general appearance of 
the place. Of foliage there is abundance; which 
we all understand to be a most important consider- 
ation in a cemetery, both for the shade which it af- 
fords to those who visit the place and for the hy- 
gienic chemical action which all trees exert so large- 
ly, particularly in a burial ground. I have much 
admiration for the slopes and banks, green as in the 
Emerald Isle, for the substantial granite which 
forms the facades of the vaults, and for the great 
variety of cenotaph and sarcophagus, pyramid and 
mausoleum, some of which are ornate even to wor- 
thiness of their title, and for many blocks which 
were wrought into their shape with reason and now 
boldly bearing honored names. 
The arrangement and the nomenclature of the 
roads and paths in these cemeteries are admirable. 
How can I quote from them? “Landscape Ave- 
nue,” “Eorest” and “Woodlawn,” in endless vari- 
ety and across these avenues are the paths named 
after every blos- 
som that blooms 
upon English 
hedgerows and 
flowerets that 
sparkle on prai- 
rie breadth or 
mountain side 
in spring, whose 
very names sug- 
gest odors of 
sweetness and 
thoughts of 
peace which are 
very well inspir- 
ed in these sur- 
roundings. The 
cypress and mis- 
tletoe, willow 
and palm, and 
other indications 
more sombre are 
found here also, 
but amid all 
these, which 
constitute the 
CROSS IN MEMORY OF STEPHEN CLARE, admirable natu- 
ral environment, there stand those stones which 
to my mind are evidences of the lack of Christian 
thought and Christian sentiment which surely should 
THE MAUDE CROSS. 
be found around the ab- 
odes of the dead. 
I have no difficulty in 
proving this. I stood up- 
on a hilltop which is ad- 
orned by the Morse tomb, 
in itself a thing of beauty, 
though of composite ar- 
chitectural character. A- 
round and within view 
from that hill-top were 
probably more than a 
thousand various memorial 
stones, and among them 
all I counted but four 
crosses which surmounted 
other erections, one cross 
sawn out in a headstone, 
and only one Latin cross 
pure and simple. 
There is no lack of 
work or wealth spent up 
