House and Garden 
THE ART OF LANDSCAPE GARDENING* 
The New Edition of Repton 
UUMPHRY REPTON was born 
at Bury St. Edmunds, England, 
on May 2nd 1752. He died at Hare- 
street, March 24, 1818. He thus lived 
at a time very advantageous for the sift¬ 
ing and clarifying of the principles of his 
art, for he succeeded two or three genera¬ 
tions of writers and practitioners of 
landscape gardening who had had ample 
time to air their theories and experiment 
with them on a large scale often, alas! 
with ruinous results to the garden scenery 
of England. At the beginning of the 
eighteenth century there had begun a 
reaction from the excesses of the formal 
school, and the beauty and reasonable¬ 
ness of informal composition in nat¬ 
ural or artificial scenery had been per¬ 
ceived. 
Like other new ideas, this was pushed 
to excess, its essentials obscured and its 
accidentals exaggerated. Hogarth in¬ 
vented his catchphrase “the line of 
beauty” to describe a reverse curve, and 
a few men of force and ability headed by 
Lancelot Brown, nicknamed “Capa¬ 
bility,” imitated by many others of 
neither force nor ability, proceeded to 
apply the meandering line everywhere, 
in and out of season, until they produced 
a worse monotony than the topiary work 
and bald symmetry of a former genera¬ 
tion. Roads and paths turned back on 
themselves pursuing their own windings, 
and lines of lakes and streams, lawn 
surfaces and planting curved without 
aim or end. 1 hen Repton appeared, a 
man born for his opportunity, and with 
great natural taste and powers of obser¬ 
vation, saw for himself the work and 
ideas of his predecessors, chose what 
was good, and added many conclusions 
of his own. His method was that of 
common sense refined to the point of 
genius, and this with his sympathy with 
the point of view of his aristocratic 
patrons, and his perfect understanding 
of conditions, brought him a succession 
of clients and opportunities that has per¬ 
haps never been equalled. As he says 
himself “A large part of the scenery of 
England has come under my care. ” 
But so much of his work has succumbed 
to alterations or to its own success in not 
appearing to have been constructed at 
all, that his most valuable legacy is his 
* “ Tile Art of Landscape Gardening.” by Humphry Repton, 
Revised and edited by John Nolan. A. M. Houghton, 
i Mifflin & Co., Publishers, Boston and New York. Price, $ 3.00 
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