"ONE advantage to a poor man, arising from cultivating a taste for architecture and landscape, scenery is, that it prevents him, in many cases, from envying the residences of the rich; not but that the poor man would be glad of the most tasteless place that could fall in his way as a property, but that the bad taste often displayed in places directs his thoughts in a different channel, and gives him a feeling of elegant superiority that wealth without taste cannot bestow. Next to the satisfaction of possessing any object is that of possessing a knowledge of its faults and beauties, or what we fancy are such."-H. These are the remarks of a friend of ours, which he applies to houses and furniture in town (and, having little to do, he visits most houses in the fashionable parts of London that are to be let, or where the furniture is to be sold), as well as to houses and grounds in the country; and we offer them as an excuse for not noticing one or two of the villas on the rising grounds to the north of Brighton.
