6F,PTKM~BEB 1300. I NEW-YOBK DAmS TRIBUTE. BUHBAiY. 2*. a palace tn a t&mrtnx Castle the grounds are much more Impressive than Lord AnxndeTs big stone house, with Its clumsy por- tico; and among the beautiful woods hi t*« moss grown. Ivy clad ruin of the historic feacst which withstood many a siege. At Stoarhead. not far from Longleat and be- yond the Duke of Somerset's park at Ma!-Jcn Bradley, the broad landscape effects have been sacrificed to architectural embellishment. The high cross of Bristol towers above the entrance gate, and In the course of a circuit of two mOes around a lovely lake scores of classic mcifla and works of statuary are seen. A t- mpla of the muses stands opposite the swan house; a river god with an urn and a stor.e nymph rea '/ for the bath are sheltered in a huge grotto; the portico of the Pantheon Is the screen for a sr r:<-3 of statues; a model of the Eaalbec Temple of the Sun rises midway on the hillside, and hi^h above every giant Is the LONGLEAT, THE WILTSHIRE COUNTRY HOUSE OF THE MARQUIS OF BATH. sculptured front and forest massive Stourton tower, a landmark visible for many from the chalk clo-jrns. A fortune fasely ornamented wtth tuneta and statues on are several Holbeins and Lerys, numerous Knell- miles Dyck; been expended by Sir Richard Hoare In WmrSHLKE HOUSES. the roof mil a distinctive grouping of the three ers and Jansena, and at l^ast one Van has drawing room, ornamenting these beautiful pleasure ground* Many the cold, sham cTasfdc palaces and with the exception of the stories. of Pinturicchio, with noble works of sculpture and excellent Im- *>*** period Impress spectator where there are works by Ghlrlan- built during the and itations of famous architectural designs, and La Ztmgleat, WSton, Wardour and as stately where ancestors must haw dajo, Martegna and Raphael, the corridors homes portraits of place of the primitive wilderness, where the prematurely from excess of pride without great apartments are lined with died Tisaged knights, vis- West Saxons dwelt and where King Alfred Siourhead. having known many comfortable hours, nils stately ladles and grim most Taxied art fought, there Is a varied collection of native and Hbramgsham, Wiltshire, September 10. a bright, residence wLere descendants counts and marquise* The Is sunlit Marquis L*ns- foreign trees and shrubs, carefully planted and the most picturesque English lanes with great names can enjoy Chair privileged collection tn Wiltshire is th* of tee at Bowood, Raphael's systematically grouped and labelled. Stour- faoaSa from Salisbury Plain and tho Deverell -Hrt«w» nrmirtln— as la the lofty hall and dowxts*s at which Includes vShvges to the gates of Longleat. The prospects ar» broad, for the lane winds among three high \m* aglow with yellow furze and radiant with wcrple heather; and while the Welsh mountains aaa be seen on the clearest days from the crests at Bldcombe and Brimsdon. the long swells of the grassy downs fall away southward and mtward from the ancient mounds and earth- works, and the distant reaches of Wiltshire wnder the dullest sky are an emerald sea. ItIs a long, wild walk over a grass grown brldlo path fringed with rusty broom and russet \u25a0edges. The autumnal tints are seen premature- ly on the wind swept ridges of the downs after the long, dry summer; but the blends of green are as fresh and vividas in spring on the distant knolls of Bradley Park, the wooded hills around Etourhead crowned with Alfred's Tower, and the glades of Longleat, where the lake gleams like a JeweL The lane reaches the highest level op- posite Maiden Bradley, and then drops with a precipitato rush into the main road and the luaint village of Horningsham, with Its long lne of stone faced cottages, a chapel more In- teresting than the church, because it is said to be the oldest dissenting place of worship InEng- fcnd, and a wayside well with a Scriptural bene- lettered in the masonry- Where save In the storied motherland can a walk like this be crowned with glamour of romance as beautiful as the soft, verdant landscape with Its glints of purplo and gold? When the ancient well, with Its parable of the spring of life eternal is passed, the sentimental saunterer is on the borders of Longleat, where a royalist stronghold was be- sieged by Cromwell's Roundheads and one of the Arundel ladies allowed herself to he boxed up in a coffin and carried out to a churchyard in order to escape capture. Kvery gnat Wiltshire park is noted 'or Its characteristic trees. Bowood has its oaks and cedars; cedars of Lebanon; Wilton its group of Stourhead its groves of beeches; Fonthill its silver firs. Longleat has its avenues of elms and clumps of American pinea Itis an estate of more than two thousand acres, with a large lake fed by a stream from Horningsham. While there DRAWING ROOM AT LONGLEAT. u-e no deep valleys among high hills, as at Bowood, there are wooded slopes and rolling luxuriously furnished and decorated as are Qte -St. John the Baptist." Rembrandt** famous head Is one of the finest show places to Wilt- iawns and pleasure ground; the deer park is a drawing room and long saloon, there are many "Sunlit MTH," Hogarth's "Peg Woffington" and shire, and the indefatigable baronet Is e^noroiii broad expanse of woodland and thicket; ard comfortable apartments, notably the south One examples of RuysdaeL Claude and Sir to strangers; yet one can hardly help wtshlnj from Ilcrvin's Gate there is a wonderful out- library, the dining room and the billiard room. Joshua Reynolds. Lord Methuen at Corsham that there had been less fassmess ? look on a belt of genuine forest. On low ground Like all the great houses of Wiltshire, Longleat Court also has a remarkable collectirvn of early variety of foliage and artificial d>> in the centre of the Marquis of Bath's splendid oak or ebony sideboards, Italian works; Eng- is well stocked with and Flemish and while the "Leo- Lorsrleat represents the best traditions of>•'- *'• estate is the sixteenth century Italian mansion, buhl cabinets and French and Italian bric-a- nardo da Vinci" has been transferred from lish landscape art. I- beautiful in color from its lichened stone, brac Char! ton Park to the Lombard room of the Na- classical but monotonous to line from the con- Ttoe paintings at Longleat are mainly family tional Gallery, Suffolk has many fine pict- ALL AT SEA. Lord plans tinuous rows of mullioned windows, and pro- portraits of the Thynncs and Weymouths. There ures in his stately Jacobean mansion. At Long- Hetnrleh Conried was laying: his wlnteT ford Castle, near Salisbury, Lord Radnor has before a group of reporters. One of thi one of the most valuable art collections in Eng- men asked a foolish question, and Mr. Conried land. It Includes Holbein's "Erasmus," Velas- said: your it;- quez's "Juan de Parejo," Correggio's "Venus "That question reveals Disarming Cupid," and masterpieces by Claude, music, doesn't it?" Nicolas Poussin, Guido, Rubens, Van Dyck "Yes, Isuppose itdoes.-" the reporter and Reynolds. At Wilton House the great frankly. "Iconfess that Idon't know Van Dyck portrait group of the Herbert family music to tell a waltz from a march." ' Is to be seen, with many other paintings; at "Your question indicated all that an Wardour Castle there is an excellent Gerard said Mr. Conried. "It reminded me of a , Dow; and at Fonthill House there is a beautiful Ionce heard in Quebec. Memling, with a Rembrandt beside it. "A young man accosted an m The portraits at Long-teat may be less inter- theatre long before the commencem esting than the art treasures at Bowood. Wil- performance, and. pointing to th and Longford; but the that leaned against the piano In tho ton effects of landscape orchestra, be said excitedly: gardening and forestry are unrivalled. The "Whore is the btst place to sit to woodland park has been planned on broad lines sight of the man that is going to put Ui*i. I so as to conform with the sweep and trend of under his chin?" the undulating chalk country. There is a large WAY. expanse of water, and the pleasure grounds and THE ONLY SIRE > \u25a0. v gardens are spacious; but the greater part of "Say, old man." said the soulful - "what's the besr way to tir.d out > : the Marquis of Bath's estate consists of tracts thinks of you?" "Marry her." replied P of forest in a natural state. There are few promptly.—{Catholic Standard and Times. oaks, for which deep soil is lacking in the chalk downs of Wiltshire. For mammoth oaks one must look further north in the private parks of English, French Etchings Hertfordshire, in Bedfordshire around or Ampt- of 18TH cextiut. hill. or still higher among the Dukeries. Beeches, MEZZOTINTS. MIOTO3 AM> CARBONS firs, chestnuts, cedars and elms are to be found OV AIXKUliOrKA*liAIJ-KKIK-H. In perfection at Longleat; and among these St. BUSSE OLD WARDOUR CASTLE IN WILTSHIRE, ENGLAND. splendid screens of forest the house stands like 12 West 28th GEORGE