House & Garden 
beautiful lower terrace of the Achilleion in 
reverse order; and the .magical illusion is 
not dispelled until long after the palace has 
been left to its quiet watch on the mountain¬ 
side. 
A description of the second terrace must, 
of necessity, partake of the general nature of 
the foregoing, and yet there is everywhere 
that evidence of variety, coupled with sym- 
variety of shrubs. But the principal point 
of difference lies in the arrangement, and it 
is in this that the visitor finds greatest cause 
for admiration. Whereas the first terrace 
was laid out with its points of greatest 
interest at its extremities, the second is 
arranged about a real central figure, no less a 
personage than the winged Mercury, whose 
talaria as well as the tall pedestal upon 
THE EASTERN FRONT OF THE COLONNADE 
The u Fountain of the Dolphin ” partly visible on the left 
metry, which does not escape the sensitive 
appreciation of the spectator, even though it 
may be found too subtle for expression in 
words. The two terraces have much in 
common, it is true, both being veritable palm 
gardens, and both are singularly free and 
open in design. It is noticeable that on the 
first terrace there has been a preference for the 
date palm, while on the second the phoenix 
flourishes in greater number, and there is 
here to be observed, possibly, a greater 
which the statue rests are now hidden in a 
sphere of the inevitable bosso. In fact the 
agile god seems to have risen like Venus 
from the foam of the sea, except that the 
foam has been replaced by a great evergreen 
bubble. At its southeastern extremity the 
terrace opens upon a shaded avenue which 
winds about the hillside to the water’s edge. 
We turn aside here, not with a view of 
making the descent and of inspecting the 
water works, the electric plant, and certain 
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