. 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 /Charles William Eliot. ANDSCAPE ART 223 1804. John Claudius Loudon. Observations on the Theory and Practice ofLandscape Gardening, etc. Edinburgh, 8vo. 1806. A Treatise on forming, improving, and man-aging Country Residences. London, 2 vols., 4to. 1808. Alexandre Louis Joseph, Comte de Laborde. — Descriptions desNouveaux Jardins de la France. Paris, folio. 1812. John Claudius Loudon. — * Hints on the Formation of Gardens andPl
. 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 /Charles William Eliot. ANDSCAPE ART 223 1804. John Claudius Loudon. Observations on the Theory and Practice ofLandscape Gardening, etc. Edinburgh, 8vo. 1806. A Treatise on forming, improving, and man-aging Country Residences. London, 2 vols., 4to. 1808. Alexandre Louis Joseph, Comte de Laborde. — Descriptions desNouveaux Jardins de la France. Paris, folio. 1812. John Claudius Loudon. — * Hints on the Formation of Gardens andPleasure Grounds. London, 4to. 1818. F. L. von Sckell, Landschafts-gartner. — d Beitrage zur bildenden Gartenkunst. Munich, 8vo. 1819. Gabriel Thouin, architecte-paysagiste. — Plans raisonn^s de toutes les Especes de Jardins. Paris, folio. 1819. Viart, architecte-paysagiste. — Le Jardiniste Moderne, etc. Paris, 12mo. 1822. John Claudius Loudon. — An Encyclopaedia of Gardening, , 8vo. 1832. William S. Gilpin. — Practical Hints on Landscape Furst Hermann Ludwig Heinrich von Puckler-Muskau. An-deutungen iiber Landschafts-gartnerei. Stuttgart, CHAPTER XII THREE CONGENIAL UNDERTAKINGS. TWO PARKS ANDA CHURCH SITE Laying out grounds, as it is called, may be considered as a liberalart, in some sort like poetry and painting : and its object, like that ofall the liberal arts, is, or ought to be, to move the affections under thecontrol of good sense ; that is, of the best and wisest. ... No liberalart aims merely at the gratification of an individual or a class ; thepainter or poet is degraded in proportion as he does so: the true ser-vants of the Arts pay homage to the human kind as impersonated inunwarped and enlightened minds. — Wobdswobth. In September, 1887, Charles prepared a plan for the im-provement of the ancient Common at Newburyport, the townfrom which came his great-grandmother, Catherine Atkins,the second wife of Samuel Eliot of
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