2278. Eye-traps, painted perspectives, on walls or boards, as terminations, mock hermits, soldiers, banditti, wooden lions, sheep in stucco, or any other figures of men or animals, intended to pass for realities, though still used in Holland and France, may be pronounced as too puerile for the present age. If they are still admired by the city mob in a suburban tea-garden, so much the better; the mob must be pleased as well as their superiors, and the rich vulgar may join with them; but the object of all the arts, whether useful or agreeable, is to elevate our tastes and enjoyments; and therefore, as soon as men's minds are prepared for any refinement on former things, the particular art to which these things belong should prepare the way for their removal, by presenting appropriate substitutes. A few reading tents and portable coffee-houses, scattered in umbrageous and picturesque situations, over the public parks round London and Edinburgh, as at Paris and Vienna, would be as fitting resources for one class of pedestrians, as those crowded yards called tea-gardens are for others.