House and Garden 
THE LIBRARY 
comfort that prevails all through the house. And it 
is worth noting that everywhere is the feeling that 
every nook and corner of this house is made to 
delight the eye of man and to contribute to his ease 
and comfort, with no encroachment of foolish and 
trivial decoration. It would be interesting, had one 
time and space, to note some of the Chinese and 
Japanese porcelains, beautiful specimens of the art, 
that are placed, in discriminating proportions, on the 
mantels and tables, as well as the Whistler, Meryon 
and Haden etchings that make one’s going upstairs 
a process of lingering delight. 
The only modern note in this harmonious repro¬ 
duction of a by-gone period is the small but precious 
collection of pictures that is hung upon the walls of 
the parlors and dining-room. Singularly enough, 
the luminous splendor of Claude Monet’s “Gelee 
Blanche” and his “Antibes” does not at all disturb 
the quiet tone of the rooms. They are rather 
joyous lights in the composition. The same may be 
said of four other fine Monets and the three Degases. 
Each of these is a masterpiece. As one strolls 
from room to room, the eye rests upon some fine 
canvases by Whistler, Carriere, Puvis de Chavannes 
and Daumier. 
1 he attraction and charm of the interior of “Hill 
Stead,” then, are not certain features which stand 
out from others and call for special notice, so much 
as the uniting of all into an expression of fitness, 
utility, beauty and comfort. 
Stepping outside again one notices that the land 
falls gradually from the house on three sides. To 
the north are the ample golf links with its “pond 
hazard.” Toward the west a concrete walk, bor¬ 
dered by a box hedge, leads to a public street. But 
there is another and more alluring path which you 
might not easily discover, and that is an old cow lane 
that leads through stone w alls and borders of w 7 ild 
flowers down the hill to Miss Pope’s house. A peep 
into this charming house, built one hundred and 
sixty years ago, would show an interior reverentially 
preserved, and many beautiful pieces of the best 
old furniture. But that is another story. 
A sunken garden was the obvious treatment of a 
hollow a short distance from the house at the south. 
This is reached through a high wall of field stones, 
in fact a stone wall of the old type. A good portion 
of “Hill Stead’s” acres is surrounded by the same 
kind of massive and thoroughly built w all, made to 
last for all time. In the center of this grassy 
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