The ideals are wide and various. They include art, drama
and literature, athletics and much besides. They are expressed concretely in many ways ; for example, by a grandiose theatre (where some very good acting is to be seen) and a bowling green of Cumberland turf ! The commupal spirit is illustrated in the organization of the lawn tennis courts, in playing grounds for the children, in the unscreened gardens which must be well tended. The city increases steadily toward; its ideal size of some thirty thousand ; and so far the spectacle of its progress is not unpleasing in the eyes of those who owned the place and knew it as a concretion of farms and woods. The few factories are so placed that they do not urbanize the dwelling houses. There is no obvious con- fliction between the garden and the city of the title.
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