American art and American art collections; essays on artistic subjects . with most in England, and upon improving which, to borrow Sir Walter Scotts words, and the domains around, the Earl of Leicester had, it is said, expended sixty thousand poundssterling, a sum equal to half a million of our present money. The outer wall of this splendid and gigantic structure enclosed seven acres, a part of which wasoccupied by extensive stables, and by a pleasure garden, with its trim arbors and parterres, and therest formed the large base-court, or outer yard of the noble castle. The lordly structure its
American art and American art collections; essays on artistic subjects . with most in England, and upon improving which, to borrow Sir Walter Scotts words, and the domains around, the Earl of Leicester had, it is said, expended sixty thousand poundssterling, a sum equal to half a million of our present money. The outer wall of this splendid and gigantic structure enclosed seven acres, a part of which wasoccupied by extensive stables, and by a pleasure garden, with its trim arbors and parterres, and therest formed the large base-court, or outer yard of the noble castle. The lordly structure itself,which rose near the centre of this spacious enclosure, was composed of a huge pile of magnificentcastellated buildings, apparently of different ages, surrounding an inner court, and bearing in thenames attached to each portion of the magnificent mass, and in the armorial bearings which werethere blazoned, the emblems of mighty chiefs who had long passed away, and whose history, ; ? tllr 1 jfi I III if1 ii ? i1 I.; V llll twn|X||,|»! rifilitj-;!!!!?!!!^!!!^ i. GRANDMA. DRAWN BT H. WINTHROP PEIRCB. AMERICAN ART 38i could Ambition have lent ear to it, might have read a lesson to the haughty favorite who hadnow acquired and was augmenting the fair domain. A large and massive Keep, which formed thecitadel of the Castle, was of uncertain though great antiquity. It bore the name of Caesar, perhapsfrom its resemblance to that in the Tower of London so called. . Old John of Gaunt, time-honored Lancaster, had widely extended the Castle, erecting that noble and massive pile which
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