House and Garden 
those who would learn how to think of 
and analyze problems of outdoor treat¬ 
ment. 
He seems to have met with the 
same kind of obstacles that discourage 
his successors of the twentieth century, 
the difficulty of getting his ideas properly 
carried out, the perversity of clients, 
especially of the man who sees what is 
right and does what is wrong, the reck¬ 
lessness and responsibility of those who 
alter his work, the sneers of the dull and 
ignorant, especially of the hired subor¬ 
dinate, the man in charge who has his 
employer’s ear; it is only in speaking of 
the latter that he gives way to strong 
language. His mistakes are few, won¬ 
derfully few for a self-taught man. He 
is accused by Reginald Blomfield and 
others of turning houses of brick and 
stone to a uniform stone color, of chang¬ 
ing a roof of red tiles to one of blue slates 
and so on, and convicted by bis own pen. 
An obelisk at the end of a vista was to 
him an “eye-trap.” But most of our 
differences with him are slight and unes¬ 
sential, depending on changes of fashion 
or feeling, and before condemning any¬ 
thing in Repton, the reader is advised to 
consider carefully what he has to say 
about it. He was very sensitive to the 
colors, texture and variety of foliage and 
flowers under different atmospheric con¬ 
ditions, but he has never the gardener’s 
attitude towards them, a tree or bush is to 
him merely an item in a whole, of no 
especial value in itself. The garden- 
esque school which makes an ordered 
scheme out of trees, shrubs or groups of 
flowering plants, each developed for its 
own sake arose after his time with the 
great additions to the planter’s resources 
made from the flora of Asia and Amer¬ 
ica. 
Repton’s writings are naive, lucid, 
quaint and a little cumbersome in style. 
They show a man of interesting and 
lovable personality, of a mind singularly 
tolerant and fair towards not merely 
his rivals, but those who differed from 
and attacked him. He always strove 
for the better housing and comfort of the 
poor tenants on the great estates to which 
he was called, and this at a time when 
philanthropy was little understood or 
appreciated. He has left in his book 
the unconscious portrait of a gentleman 
of the old school. 
This modern edition of Repton is 
edited by Mr. John Nolen who has elim¬ 
inated certain archaisms andirrelevancies 
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