Two Houses by Leonard Stokes , F. R. I. B. A. 
THE BILLIARD-ROOM 
SHOOTER S HILL 
and more of tradition, is without doubt the 
more pleasing—its simple yet sufficient gar- 
den-work is more necessary to its later Renais¬ 
sance stamp than is the case with the freer 
treatment of “Shooter’s Hill,” where the in¬ 
digenous and therefore less apparent formality 
in theadjacent river and the straight lines made 
by the hedges to the public road are enough 
in themselves to give the sobriety required. 
In other respects, too, the examples are 
very dissimilar. No. 2 West Drive is built 
in a London suburb, on a typically flat and 
somewhat constrained piece of ground, 
having no natural endowment save the old 
oak tree which the architect in scheming the 
garden plan has skilfully utilized as a central¬ 
izing end to the grass walk shown in the 
illustration. The enclosing hedges to this 
