House and Garden 
THE TRIUMPH OF GALATEA 
A Front View 
base stands in an octagonal basin of traver¬ 
tine, round which is an antique wavy design, 
having devices of shields and cockle-shells 
at the angles. The little wall fountain, also 
from her studio, was erected by Mrs. Ham- 
lyn at the top of the ascending village street 
in Clovelly, and is in memory of Her late 
Majesty Oueen Victoria. The swans in¬ 
troduced into the design form the Hamlyn 
badge. The simple and charming design of 
a water nymph with a dolphin under her 
arm is by Mr. Robert Colton who has just 
been elected an Associate ot the Royal 
Academy and whose statue, “ The Girdle,” 
is one of the attractions of the l ate Gallery. 
I his fountain has been erected in Hyde Park. 
I'he photograph of Mr. Derwent Wood’s 
bronze fountain, which is now erected in the 
rose-garden of Wiseton Hall, suffers from 
the tact that it was taken in the studio be¬ 
fore the accessories were completed and that 
it lacks the curved line of the water jets, so 
important to the composition. As it stands, 
however, it is a powerful group and well 
worthy of attention. 
Perhaps one of the most successful de¬ 
signers of fountains for English gardens is 
Mr. Waldo Story. No one can look on his 
decorative work without thinking of the 
Renaissance in Italy—the Renaissance at the 
time of its early maturity, before the exuber¬ 
ance ot ornamentation arose which preceded 
its downhill. That was undeniably a great 
period in art, when great works were accom¬ 
plished with extraordinary enthusiasm and 
when every one of God’s creatures, from the 
Pope on his throne to the very beggar at his 
gates, was animated with a real and discrimi¬ 
nating love of art. Exception may be taken 
to the lavish use of the newly developed 
powers of technique acquired at this time 
and many prefer the art oi a sterner, simpler 
age, but few will deny that it was exactly 
suited to the decoration of the magnificent 
palaces erected in the cinque-cento and that to 
this day no other scheme of decoration is as 
suitable or as effective. 
The art of the Renaissance was pitched in 
a joyous key ; it was the swing of the pen¬ 
dulum which had touched the perfection of 
