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writings which epitomize more effec¬ 
tively perhaps than any others the gen¬ 
eral principles of outdoor design. They 
are also more vivid and graphic than 
others because they consist mainly of 
extracts from his “Red Books” which 
were his reports on the improvements 
he proposed, with discussions of his rea¬ 
sons for them; and being a collection 
of isolated essays, the book is easy to 
pick up and read casually. It is prob¬ 
ably safe to say that nearly every im¬ 
portant principle and expedient of 
general design which has been used in 
modern work can be found in Repton. 
He saw that architecture was not an 
incident in the landscape, but was a part 
of it, and that both should be regarded 
as one composition. He restored the 
terraces and other architectural features 
to some houses and regretted their loss in 
others, where they had been destroyed 
by the mistaken zeal of his predecessors 
of the “landscape” school. He made 
formal designs himself, and united them 
with considerable tact to the informal 
work, a point in which modern designers 
too often fail. He understood that 
gardening was not and could not be an 
imitation of nature or painting, though 
the general principles of its composition 
are derived from both. He was beset by 
the clamor of his predecessors and their 
adherents about “Nature abhorring a 
straight line” yet had the courage to 
defend and construct straight lines in 
their proper place. He was ridiculed by 
amateurs like Knight and Uvedale Price, 
yet held to his own position, and replied 
with a courtesy and temperance that 
served to make his arguments more 
effective. It would be interesting and 
amusing, did space permit, to take up 
the charges of those who have decried 
the informal school one by one, and show 
how they are refuted in the writings 
of its most distinguished professor. He 
attacks the “ modern serpentine garden¬ 
ing” (as he called it) the indehniteness, 
the frittering, the hatred of straight lines, 
the mental narrowness and all the ab¬ 
surdities of which alleged landscape 
gardeners have been, with too much 
justice, accused. His designs would 
not fit our American conditions because 
of our different feeling, social and 
artistic, our different climates and condi¬ 
tions of vegetable growth, and our dis¬ 
tance in time and space. But his basic 
principles are as useful here as anywhere, 
and his writings are most valuable to 
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