Within, the wainscots, cornices and chimney-pieces are models of excellence; and if, perhaps, we could nowadays achieve better success in ventilating bedrooms than was achieved by Washington with his, we must own, we are still largely the debtor party by the amount of education we imbibe relating to what Eliza Southgate calls—in her edifying book of letters of a girl written eighty years ago, bound between samplers, concerning Sunswick, the Delafield house on Long
WYCK, GERMANTOWN.
TERRACE AND GARDEN FRONT OF A HOUSE AT WYOMING, N. J. 1899.
Modern Development of the Carlyle House, Alexandria, Va.
Island—“Ease, elegance and hospitality,” and which we carry away with us.
As one looks back from the west gate toward the manse which he sees at the end of a vista of verdure, another conception of the first American comes to him which no biographer out of all he has had seems to have thought worth while delineating. Washington has always been our greatest military commander. We were convinced of that long before our visit to Mount Vernon, but he has not always been our greatest connoisseur of American Renaissance.