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The Art of Landscape Gardening. By Humphry Repton. Edited by

John Nolen, A.M. (A. Constable and Co. 128. .6d. net.)—Mr. Nolen has combined in this volume two of the books in which Repton (1752-1818) discussed the subject of landscape gardening, "Sketches and Hints on Landscape Gardening" and "The Theory and Practice of Landscape Gardening." Of course it is a book addressed to the few. It is an American publication, and suited especially to a country where the millionaire exists, and where he can command more easily than here space for the carrying out of great ideas. To "make a lake," for instance, is a serious matter in a country which is so parcelled out as this. Still, the book will be found interesting by readers who do not contemn- plate the making of landscapes.