. 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. JJ t. ^T. 26] BEDFORD PARK —FAUST —PINNER * 57 took train to Bedford Park where I tramped till lunch is a whole town, built of pretty houses of red brick andtile, with picturesque chimneystacks, dormers, and roofs,stoops, porches, and leaded windows, a church, a block of supply stores, and a Tabard Inn. The houses are rathercrowded; but in a few streets there are little gardens, —some extremely well contrived and pret
. 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. JJ t. ^T. 26] BEDFORD PARK —FAUST —PINNER * 57 took train to Bedford Park where I tramped till lunch is a whole town, built of pretty houses of red brick andtile, with picturesque chimneystacks, dormers, and roofs,stoops, porches, and leaded windows, a church, a block of supply stores, and a Tabard Inn. The houses are rathercrowded; but in a few streets there are little gardens, —some extremely well contrived and pretty. The roads arenarrow, with curbstones, paved gutters, and street treesthroughout. There are no service alleys ; so that in someparts of the town the houses look across the street at thebacks of other houses; but then, the backs are is a pleasing variety of street palings, walls, andfences, and a few houses are well grouped with large elms. After luncheon in a neat little den, I walked down to theThames and Chiswick by way of a snarl of narrow lanes, andthence turned cityward by footways and lanes, sometimes ona river wall, sometimes behind fa
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