Notes and Reviews 
paraphernalia of halls, markets, cottages, 
shops, boat landing and avenues according to 
a logical and organic design. Chautauqua is 
to be reconstructed from end to end. It has 
passed beyond the period of tents and has 
outgrown the stage of frame buildings. It is 
now to be constructed of brick and stone. 
Aimless avenues are to be drawn into a con¬ 
venient and beautiful system, a glance at which 
will immediately explain the purpose of all. 
A broad avenue will connect the market-place 
with the Hall of Philosophy, constituting a 
focus for the life of the community. About 
this, pleasant avenues of cottages will be 
arranged and a monumental stairway will lead 
down to Miller Park, through whose groves 
one may reach a new esplanade leading to the 
boat landing. A new hotel, new and larger 
shops and halls, and a lake shore drive will be 
constructed. The architect of these changes, 
Mr. Albert Kelsey, will further express the in¬ 
tellectual purpose of Chautauqua in symbolic 
structural details throughout the grounds. 
T HK United States Military Academy at 
West Point is another example of the 
need of a general design by which the build¬ 
ings and their means of communication can 
be the better arranged “ to meet the require¬ 
ments of efficient administration and super¬ 
vision, health, comfort and economy of time.” 
Competitive designs are to be submitted May 
15th to a board of judges composed of the 
Honorable Secretary of War, Lieutenant- 
General John M. Schofield, Colonel Albert 
L. Mills, Messrs. George B. Post, Walter 
Cook and Cass Gilbert. The following archi¬ 
tects have accepted Secretary Root’s invitation 
to enter the competition : Messrs. Cope & 
Stewardson, Heins & LaFarge, Carrere & 
Hastings, Peabody & Stearns, Lames & 
Young, Charles C. Haight, 1 ). H. Burnham 
& Co., Cram, Goodhue & Ferguson, M cKim, 
Mead & White and Frost & Granger Flight 
of the old buildings are to be left intact, but 
the designs are to provide for twenty-one new 
buildings without encroaching upon the pres¬ 
ent practice plain ; and it is required that means 
be shown for the future extension of West 
Point as that institution shall grow in propor¬ 
tion with the country. The program for the 
changes very rightly urges a treatment “worthy 
of the historic associations and natural beauties 
of the site.” Here is an opportunity for the 
greatest skill of the greatest architect. No 
finer field could be offered to the designer’s 
imagination than the plateau of West Point 
and the abrupt descent to the Hudson. In 
rendering this more beautiful, he will preserve 
what Nature has done and not overawe the 
famous place with that architecture which is 
at best more or less artificial. 
B Y recording her practical experience in 
“A Woman’s Hardy Garden,”' Mrs. Ely 
has clearly done a service to those who wish 
to make a garden themselves. The book is 
not technical, nor does it have to do with 
the science or theories of gardening. The 
author has reared and tended flowers with love 
and enthusiasm, the culled fruits of her labors 
being her especial delight. Her garden lies 
not far from New York, and thus the climatic 
conditions with which she has labored 
apply to many would-be gardeners here in 
America who have vainly strived to apply the 
advice of English works to our conditions. 
The author merely tells her story and 
suggests how others may do as she has done. 
1 “ A Woman’s Hardy Garden,” by Mrs. Helena Rutherford Ely, 
216 pp. i2mo. Illustrated. New York and London, Macmillans, 
1903. Price, $1.75 net. 
It is an introduction to gardening as well as a 
plea for it. Under the most usual conditions 
the easiest means of making a garden are 
pointed out for the amateur. Jt goes just far 
enough into detail to encourage a first step, 
while it eschews alluring and difficult feats of 
elaborate and expensive horticulture. 'I he 
cost of the necessary seeds or plants is set 
down, along with a concise list of the most 
satisfactory varieties, their size when full 
grown, their color and time of blooming. 
The preparation of the soil, laying out and 
planting borders upon a small lot, the habits 
and requirements of annuals, perennials, 
biennials, roses and lilies: in all these, the 
author directs her reader in a straightforward 
and conversational way, which would be 
entertaining even if robbed of its undercurrent 
of humor. 
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