House and Garden 
some of their gardens have been made 
public parks. The house generally 
stands in a small plot of a few acres 
where the great English country house 
is surrounded by its thousands. 
Among the French places treated 
Versailles is the most famous. Indeed 
this colossal royal home, costing nearly 
^100,000,000 stands by itself as a monu¬ 
ment of lavish expenditure. Archi¬ 
tecturally these French palaces have 
become models for the rest of the world, 
and many of the gardens were planned 
by Le Notre, the famous landscape 
gardener of the time of Louis XIV. 
But it is in England that the country 
home has reached its most attractive 
development. The great manor with 
its thousands of acres of forest or farm 
land, its park of a hundred acres and its 
garden of a score more, is the English 
nobleman’s most precious possession. 
His castle, which has descended to him 
through a long line of illustrious ances¬ 
tors, the adjoining church, the village 
and the tenants, are all an intimate part 
of his life. It m.atters not that his home 
is a day’s journey from London and 
inconvenient of access. He has interests 
there to which he can devote himself, 
and he frequently entertains parties of 
friends with shooting or hunting. The 
country house and the house-party have 
long been important features in English 
life. 
We have not attained in America the 
cultivation of the country life as it is 
piactised in England. For one thing 
the desire of every man here to own his 
own house, even if mortgaged, prevents 
the maintenance of such extensive 
estates in America by income from a 
reliable rent-roll. Popular fashion, too, 
frequently changes the values of resi¬ 
dential districts and still more sudden 
turns of financial fortune have con¬ 
spired with her. The young American 
marries and leaves his ancestral home, 
seldom to return to it. Into him has 
not been trained the reverence for the 
old family place that actuates the Eng¬ 
lishman. It is one of the failings of our 
virtues. We are not apologizing for it. 
In this country it is neither appropriate 
nor necessary. This condition is re¬ 
flected in the book before us. Except 
for Mt. Vernon, Arlington and the Long¬ 
fellow house none of the places pictured 
is of historical significance. Biltmore, 
near Asheville, North Carolina, with its 
hundred thousand acre domain and its 
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