Other famous homes of Great Britain and their stories . de the gardens, on three sidesof the house: three of elms — gigantic trees, fourteen of whichwe saw go down in a few minutes in a fearful gale — and one ofvariegated sycamores, also splendid trees, all of which, exceptthree, fell during a hurricane two years ago. Indeed, the windhas played sad havoc round Castle Bromwich ; standing as it 94 (Tastle Bromwicb does on the top of a hill, and lying between two valleys, alongwhich flow two rivers, the Tame and the Cole, it is the rallying-point of every wind that blows. And now I have brought y
Other famous homes of Great Britain and their stories . de the gardens, on three sidesof the house: three of elms — gigantic trees, fourteen of whichwe saw go down in a few minutes in a fearful gale — and one ofvariegated sycamores, also splendid trees, all of which, exceptthree, fell during a hurricane two years ago. Indeed, the windhas played sad havoc round Castle Bromwich ; standing as it 94 (Tastle Bromwicb does on the top of a hill, and lying between two valleys, alongwhich flow two rivers, the Tame and the Cole, it is the rallying-point of every wind that blows. And now I have brought you round to our starting-point,the south front; and here I take my leave, hoping to have suc-ceeded in conveying to the reader that, though Castle Bromwichcannot claim to be one of the Stately Homes of which Englandis so full, it yields to none in perfection of detail in the particularstyle which it represents ; and one would certainly have to gofar and seek widely before finding a more entirely delightful andcomfortable home. fS Castle Ibowarb 95. CASTLE HOWARD, FROM THE LAKE CASTLE HOWARD BY LORD RONALD SUTHERLAND GOWER WHEN Pope wrote of Sir John Vanbrugh How Vanwants grace! he cannot have intended to refer tohis buildings, but to his plays; and if by gracedecency is understood, he was not misjudging the cleverarchitect-play writer. Certainly Castle Howard does not lack grace. A moremajestic pile of its peculiar style — a vicious style, it has beencalled — does not exist in England. And it would not be easyto match, out of Italy, its beautiful dome, rising a hundred feetin air; or its splendid south front, over-rich in decoration,and forming altogether a frontage which looks more like oneof Panninis paintings of an imaginary palace than a solidreality in stone. Sublime, Horace Walpole calls Castle 97 98 Castle 1bowai& Howard; and, strong as is the term, it is not much beyond thetruth. It is somewhat difficult to give a name to the architectural style of Castle Howard
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