House and Garden 
ANOTHER VIEW OF CALBORNE 
“The Lightning” or “ 1 he Mercury” or 
“The Regulator,” and take our supper 
with the motley throng of courtiers and con¬ 
spirators, highwaymen, actors, soldiers and 
scribes; but we have said enough of the 
glories of the old inns, and must return to 
our humbler dwelling-places. 
Modern architects are not very successful 
in building rows of cottages. In our great 
centres of industry, in Manchester, Birming¬ 
ham or Leeds, you will see countless such 
rows, the same dread, dreary, uniform, 
colorless square blocks, with the same doors 
imported from Sweden, the same windows 
and knockers and chimneys and slates, and 
when you go inside you find the same wall¬ 
paper and chimney-pieces and the same 
rhubarb-colored oil-cloth in the passage. 
It is all so dull and dreary and monotonous. 
Contrast these sad rows with the achieve¬ 
ments of the cottage-builders of former days. 
Here are some examples of their skill. Two 
of the illustrations show a row of cottages 
at Calborne in the Isle of Wight, in front of 
which flows a pretty stream. Here we see 
the ever-beautiful thatched roof with little 
dormer windows nestling in the thatch, the 
lattice panes, and the creepers growing on 
the walls. There is nothing stiff' or monot¬ 
onous, but everything is sweet and pleasant 
to behold. And the other row of cottages 
at Broadway is very attractive, built of the 
good Worcestershire stone, with the pent¬ 
house roof covering the bow-windows and 
forming a pleasant porch for the doorways. 
Would it not be possible for our modern 
architect to imitate these old designs, and dis¬ 
card for ever those hideous erections of 
dreary rows of unsightly cottages with their 
even fenestration and monotonous sameness ? 
It has been well said that Art is beauty; but 
it is also economy and appropriateness. Art 
is the facultv of being able with the greatest 
economy of material, of color and invention, 
to produce the brightest effects. If that be 
so, it can only be said that the builders of 
modern cottages have singularly failed in 
attaining to any perfection in art, and must 
yield the palm to the masons of former days. 
The most successful of the builders of the 
future will be those who are animated by 
the old spirit. The accompanying illustra- 
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