Works of Art.-It is not, therefore, in compliance with the modern fashion for destroying avenues, that I advised the removal of a few tall trees near the house at Longleat; but that the character of greatness, in a work of art like this palace, should not be obliterated by the more powerful agency of nature. Without going back to that taste when this vast pile was surrounded by lines of cut shrubs, and avenues of young trees newly planted, much of its grandeur might be restored, by judiciously removing the encroachments of vegetation: of this kind are some of the tall, shattered elms remaining, of the avenue near the house, which evidently tend to depress its importance.
