House and Garden 
signer painted with a big brush and the 
square touch. 
Switzerland and the Tyrol abound in water 
fronts beautifully developed with avenues and 
pleasure grounds. The Inn-Allee at Inns¬ 
bruck gives a splendid impression of the Al¬ 
pine uplands under the cold, hard light in 
spite of which the mountain scenes convey 
an exquisite sense of kindly human character 
and amenity. One seems to hear the chill 
green song of glacial waters and to feel the 
sting of the high snows more keenly for the 
human touch suggested by the regular avenue 
of poplars. At Geneva the quays command 
glorious views of the resistless emerald surge 
of the Rhone where it bursts from the lake. 
At Zurich, at Lucerne, at a dozen other 
points, the beauties of the Alpine lakes are 
enhanced and commanded by the bordering 
avenues and promenades, which have been 
laid out by the various municipalities with 
farseeing wisdom. In all these thrifty towns 
the shade and grace of trees has been ob¬ 
tained without either destroying the distant 
view or shutting out the so much needed sun¬ 
light from the adjacent houses, for the trees 
are kept carefully clipped to a moderate 
size instead of being allowed 
to send up lawless branches to 
an undue height. 
I wish 1 might show more 
scenes from beloved Italy. 
Genoa has her crescent of 
harbor-side esplanades; 
Florence her famed Lung- 
arno ; Naples her Santa 
Lucia and her sea-front gar¬ 
dens— these and a hundred 
more are apt for my purpose; 
and Venice—how can I slight 
the Adriatic’s Bride ! But 
1 must content myself with 
one view of Lake Lugano, with 
its typical Italian village strag¬ 
gling up the flanks of the rug¬ 
ged mountain in the middle 
ground. How valuable is the 
long line of road at mid-height of the slope! 
It gives quality to the scene and serves the 
eye as a basis. Such a road not only has 
artistic value as furnishing an adequate fore¬ 
ground from which to look out, but adds a 
graceful line to the landscape when seen from 
a distance. 
Let me finish by showing a little group of 
waterside views from various sources, each 
with a character of its own. A tiny bit of 
old Rotterdam ; and a sunny slumberous 
glade beside the still waters, the Promenade 
des Eaux donees d'Europe. How different 
from these are the water fronts of America, 
that of Chicago, for example, where many 
railway tracks border the lake front, their 
smoke and grime marring the park and sur¬ 
rounding the Art Institute. At Milwaukee 
the lake shore park is similarly ruined at its 
most vital point, the margin of the lake ; 
while yet promenades along the strand at 
many American watersides are altogether 
wanting, though in the few cases where they 
have been built their popularity is an earnest 
of how enjoyable these features of the water¬ 
side may become if built in a less flimsy and 
more carefully studied fashion. 
