House and Garden 
because the seasons find it unchangeable, as 
if for it there were no such thing as time. 
Serious plants which do not form their enor¬ 
mous balls without having lived for centuries 
in families that venerate them and on behold¬ 
ing them feel an impulse to question them 
about by-gone ancestors and entrust them 
with affectionate messages for great grand¬ 
children.” 
In “ Elia,” too, is an amusing account of 
the indignation roused in a Sevillian dame 
of high degree by changes made under for¬ 
eign influence in a relative’s garden : “ She 
has taken away the rock from the fountain. 
As for the negro mounted on a crocodile, 
with a plate of pineapples in his hand, l be¬ 
lieve that he has gone to Guinea to visit his 
kinsmen. The turtles, the snakes, the liz¬ 
ards, disposed with such art among the sea- 
shells, have disappeared, and no longer take 
comfort in the sun. The hedges of box 
which stood at the entrance, planted and 
trained so as to figure upon the soil the 
arms of the house,—these hedges of box 
which seem to have grown in honor of the 
family, they have been torn up without rev¬ 
erence or pity. There are no longer any 
fine and fragrant flowers; in their place have 
been planted the most common trees and 
shrubs. The paved walks have been de¬ 
stroyed, and winding, capricious paths, like 
ill-bred children, have been substituted. On 
rainy days it will be necessary to visit the 
garden in a coach, or to wear leather boots, 
like men.” 
The Alcazar gardens do not offend Se¬ 
villian prejudices by muddy paths. The 
porcelain-paved walks run not only along 
main avenues and under stately gateways, 
but here and there and everywhere. The 
tiles are kept fresh and bright by an ingeni¬ 
ous system of hidden waterworks, called 
burladores , or jokers. You would appreciate 
the point of the name if, as you were taking 
your dreamy way between borders of box, a 
shower should suddenly arise from the 
ground, instead of tailing from the clouds, 
enveloping your astonished figure in jets of 
diamond spray. In the picture on the 
second page may be seen, in a section of 
one of the walks, this graceful sport of the 
water, — that beautiful element which the 
Moors loved so well as to make of it a com¬ 
panion and a playmate. 
A STAINED GLASS WINDOW 
Designed and Executed by J. A. Holzer 
FOR ST. JOHN s EPISCOPAL CHURCH AT ENGLEWOOD, N. J. 
I T is a curious circumstance that, in an age 
when architects and critics unite in speak¬ 
ing despairingly of church building because 
of the lack of deep religious feeling of the 
times, really extraordinary progress should 
be made in the accessory arts of church deco¬ 
ration, whether in stone, bronze or glass. To 
be sure, the workers in colored glass—glass, 
by the way, now manufactured in the United 
States is conceded to be the best in the world 
—have had the benefit of scientific improve¬ 
ments in their material; but even that is a 
minor consideration. It would be absurd to 
say that Lafarge, for instance, would have 
failed but for the new devices of the glass 
makers. The true answer is assuredly to be 
found in the individuality of the artist. 
In the Drake-Smith memorial window re¬ 
cently placed in St. Paul’s Episcopal Church 
at Englewood, N. J., the artist, Mr. J. A. 
EIol zer, of New York, has achieved the most 
subtle effects of color and tone without a 
single touch of the brush. In the first place, 
it should be said, he has treated his subject, 
the resurrection of Christ, as a picture, with¬ 
out regard to the divisions of the panels. 
'The text he has illustrated is from St. Luke, 
chapter xxiv, verses 4-6 : 
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