Garden Fountains 
corporeal beauty in Greek art and had aimed 
at reproducing agony, tears, humiliation, sac¬ 
rifice, the unsightly wound of the martyr, 
the triumph of soul over body in early 
Christian art and had again touched the 
limit of the worship of the beautiful, the 
sense of the joy of living, and perhaps it 
erred on the side of over elaboration. H ow- 
ever that may be, it was essentially suited to 
the needs of a luxurious and sumptuously ap¬ 
pareled generation, and even in these rather 
nondescript days it is still without a rival 
when the decoration of large houses and the 
arrangement of their grounds is considered. 
Mr. Waldo Story, son of the well-known 
American sculptor, was educated at Eton 
and Oxford, but he has always had his home 
in Italy. Although far from confining him¬ 
self to one school, he has certainly been in¬ 
fluenced by the great masters of the sixteenth 
century, and like them,—although primarily 
a sculptor,—he is equally proficient in other 
decorative arts. He has, for example, de¬ 
signed a Renaissance room at North Mims 
Park with a decorated plaster ceiling and a 
marble chimney-piece with exquisite bas- 
reliefs, and he is also responsible for the 
sculptured arcades on the marble loggia in 
the same house from which you can see the 
great bronze gates cast by his own workmen 
after his design in the little-known process 
of Cire perdue used by Benvenuto Cellini. 
This will give some idea of the versatility of 
his talents. Again, the rose and white marble 
pillars in Lord Rothschild’s billiard-room at 
'I'ring Park, show his feeling for color among 
other things ; and the charming groups of 
amorini playing musical instruments, designed 
tor Mr. Crawshay’s music-room in his house 
in the Via Ouattro Fontane in Rome testify 
more specially to his gifts as a sculptor. 
Mr. Story has turned his attention to 
garden decoration and to fountains, and it 
is in this connection that his art must 
be considered here. At Cliveden, Mr. 
Astor’s ideally situated place on the River 
Thames, he has laid out terraces with 
stone balustrades and great vases for 
A FOUNTAIN AT “ ASCOTT WING 
By Mr. Waldo Story 
