. The Horticulturist and journal of rural art and rural taste. THE. ^^^a JOUMAL OF RURAL ART AND RURAL TASTE. Vol. I. JANUARY, 1S47. No. 7. What one would do if he were a duke, AND HAD HALF A MILLION A YEAR ? is a ques-tion which, if it could be audibly put by amagician or a fairy, as in the bygone days ofwands and enchantments, would set all therestless and ambitious directly to air-castle-building. Visions of the enjoyment ofgreat estates, grand palaces, galleries ofpictures, richly stored libraries, stately gar-dens, and superb equipages, would no doubtquickly crowd upon the flushed imagina
. The Horticulturist and journal of rural art and rural taste. THE. ^^^a JOUMAL OF RURAL ART AND RURAL TASTE. Vol. I. JANUARY, 1S47. No. 7. What one would do if he were a duke, AND HAD HALF A MILLION A YEAR ? is a ques-tion which, if it could be audibly put by amagician or a fairy, as in the bygone days ofwands and enchantments, would set all therestless and ambitious directly to air-castle-building. Visions of the enjoyment ofgreat estates, grand palaces, galleries ofpictures, richly stored libraries, stately gar-dens, and superb equipages, would no doubtquickly crowd upon the flushed imaginationsof many even of our soberest readers. Eachperson would give an unlimited scope, in theideal race of happiness, to his favorite hob-by, which nothing but the actual trial wouldconvince him that he could not ride betterand more wisely than all the rest of hisfellow-men. We have had placed in our hands someclever and graphic notes of a visit to Chats-worth, the celebrated seat of the Duke ofDevonshire. This place, as a highly ar-tistical country residence, is a
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