Park, near Enfield, the seat of ----------, is a romantic solitary place, formed amid forest scenery of apparently unlimited extent, and having altogether the character of a grand place in a distant part of the country. The approach to the house is first through a long straight avenue, and afterwards through forest scenery untouched by art. The water and woods beyond, as seen from the lawn front of the house, are perfect of their kind, but the walks in the pleasure-ground are on too contracted a scale for so large a place. They ought to stretch away right and left to an apparently interminable distance. An attempt has been made to earth up and plant out the stable offices or farm buildings, which, according to our notions of a fine old English place, is not in good taste. We would avow them, but blend them with the general scenery by means of a few scattered trees. Of all the different modes of concealing buildings, that of raising mounds of earth close before them appears to us the worst, because it takes away from the dignity of the building; and every building, even a cowshed, has a character more or less dignified. A great place is rendered little by any direct attempt at concealment.
