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 . his love of beauty. In his zeal for his art he hadoutrun his resources. At the age of sixty he retired to hislesser manor of Branitz, where he wrote his invaluable booksand passed a peaceful old age, varied by many journeys andmany visits to the country-seats of friends. He died in 1873. All Germany has long held him in high honor. In Eng-land, the Letters of a German Prince, as the translationof his Briefe eines Verstorbenen
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 . his love of beauty. In his zeal for his art he hadoutrun his resources. At the age of sixty he retired to hislesser manor of Branitz, where he wrote his invaluable booksand passed a peaceful old age, varied by many journeys andmany visits to the country-seats of friends. He died in 1873. All Germany has long held him in high honor. In Eng-land, the Letters of a German Prince, as the translationof his Briefe eines Verstorbenen was entitled, passedthrough several editions, and remains to this day the bestforeign delineation of the England of his early essays on landscape were long since translated intoFrench, and it is to be hoped that they may yet appear inEnglish, for they contain a very clear presentation of theelements of landscape design, as well as many lively descrip-tions of his work at Muskau. The significance for us Americans of this work at Muskauis very obvious. To be sure, at least one third of our greatcountry is so arid that luxuriant vegetation must depend on. CXnANAT/ON t totun Old Castle. 3 CasllCi 4 Theatre. 9 Uppf r Lou/cr WorJimana Uillat/e, 6 Hotel and. WalerCurc. 14 Cnglish House. 7 mm. IS Kitchen ffarden. 16
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