extending above sixty feet in length, by eighteen feet in breadth. The
upper story comprises nine chambers, bathing-room, dressing-rooms, &c.;
and the domestic offices are in the first style of completeness.

The grounds are unusually picturesque, for they have none of the
geometrical formalities of the exploded school of landscape-gardening,
or of Nature trimmed and tortured into artificial embellishment. We have
often wondered where the old gardeners acquired their mathematical
education; they must have gone about with the square and compasses in
their pockets--for knowledge was then clasped up in ponderous folios.

The second engraving is

GROVE HOUSE,

the elegant residence of George Bellas Greenough, Esq., built from the
designs of Mr. Decimus Burton. This is a happy specimen of the villa
style of architecture. The garden front, represented in the print, is
divided into three portions. The centre is a tetrastyle portico of the
Ionic order, raised on a terrace. Between the columns are three handsome
windows. The two wings have recesses, "the soffites of which are
supported by three-quarter columns of the Doric order. Between these
columns are niches, each of which contains a statue. The absence of
other windows and doors from the front," (observes Mr. Elmes,) "gives a
remarkable and pleasing _casino_ or pleasure-house character to the
house."

The portico is purely Grecian, and the proportion of the pediment very
beautiful. The entrance front also consists of a centre and two wings;
but the former has no pediment. The door is beneath a spacious