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 -Charles William Eliot (1902) (14781825774)

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Title: 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 /Charles William Eliot
Year: 1902 (1900s)
Authors: Eliot, Charles William, 1834-1926
Subjects: Eliot, Charles, 1859-1897 Landscape gardening
Publisher: Boston :Houghton
Contributing Library: Getty Research Institute
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nch source. Spacious driveways to a large house and four screened out-buildings.Highway oblique to the buildings. amused by his companions at the Reading-Room. Here is oneof his descriptions of them : There are all manner of cranksin the Reading-Room, male and female ; men with wholewalls of books piled about them; men copying and makingdrawings, and painting in water colors ; many very old gen-tlemen, their noses rubbing the pages of great books: manyyouthful women in strange dress, most of them readingRuskin; a few old women hard at work copying or at watercolors, and looking as if they had been in the room all theirlives. The attendants are very civil; but the time requiredto get out a book is incredibly long. In spite of the advantageous use he was making of histime in London, and of his thorough enjoyment of his excur-sions to the country, he was quite capable of falling into amood of depression, such as moved him to write as follows tohis father: — l^&jvxSH Compact pk^cf^.
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A TRACING FROM KEMP ^t. 26) BOOKS —PICTURES 61 Sunday, 3 Jany, 1886. I am oppressed with a sense of ac-complishing little or nothing. Somehow I am getting to thinkthat nothing I can or may do will make much difference in my professional life ; just as Aunt A says that she can hardly influence her childrens characters at all; and just ascollege makes so much less difference in mens lives than itis commonly supposed to. After all, it is what a man is bynature that counts. On the 7th of January he records his Reading-Room ex-perience thus: I finished Girardin, — good ; W. Masonspoem, 4 The English Garden; and another Masons essayon 4 Gardening, both very interesting, — the first dated1772; the second, 1768, the time of the breaking away fromthe old formal style. I also discovered a five-volume book inFrench by one Hirschfeld, published in 1785, and full of thethen new spirit. His letters of introduction having pro-cured him admission to certain friendly gatherings of archi-tects an