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Title: Charles Eliot, landscape architect : a lover of nature and of his kind, who trained himself for a new profession, practised it happily and through it wrought much good
Year: 1902 (1900s)
Authors: Eliot, Charles W. (Charles William), 1834-1926
Subjects: Eliot, Charles, 1859-1897 Landscape architects
Publisher: Boston : Houghton Mifflin
Contributing Library: Robarts - University of Toronto
Digitizing Sponsor: University of Toronto

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and reform. Curiously enough, all these were questionssettled for us in America some time ago. . . . Such talk asone hears about the Church goes beyond belief, — such cant,bigotry, and intolerance, such crying that disestablishmentmeans the knell of religion in England and the beginning ofthe end for the Empire. And then I never realized at all,till now, what a monstrous burden is this almost feudal land-system, and the whole aristocratic concern. In the worst days of cold, rain, and fog, Charles couldalways go to the British Museum and study Repton, Kemp,and other masters of his art. There, also, he made numerous 60 LANDSCAPE STUDY IN EUROPE (1886 tracings of plans and sketches, and notes on practice. There,too, he found much good reading on landscape gardening ofthe last century, such as Horace Walpoles Essay on Gar-dening, and Thomas Whatelys Observations on ModernGardening, and the works of Shenstone, another of the dis-coverers of the beauty of natural scenery. He was often O-l
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Spacious driveways to a large house and four screened out-buildings.Highway oblique to the bmldings. amused by his companions at the Reading-Room. Here is oneof his descriptions of them : There are all manner of cranksin the Reading-Room, male and female ; men with wholewalls of books piled about them ; men copying and making-drawings, and painting in water colors ; many very old gen-tlemen, their noses rubbing the pages of great books; manyyouthful women in strange dress, most of them readingRuskin; a few old women hard at work copying or at watercolors, and looking as if they had been in the room all theirlives. The attendants are very civil; but the time requiredto get out a book is incredibly long. In spite of the advantageous use he was making of histime in London, and of his thorough enjoyment of his excui-sions to the country, he was quite capable of falling into amood of depression, such as moved him to write as follows tohis father: — IXNi.cjv\Sli. CoMPfACX Pk(4CfU^. 12- y=

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