One of the latest labors of the lamented Loudon, was to collect and edit, in one volume, the works of Repton. This was one of the first of five volumes which he intended to be a complete Encyclopedia of Landscape Gardening; another was to embrace Italian, French, and Dutch schools, which represent the Geometric style; another was to treat of the "Modern, or Landscape style," as introduced by Kent, and illustrated in the writings of SH en stone, Wh ate ley, and Mason; another the Picturesque school, as represented in the writings of Gilpin and Price; and the fifth the "Gardenesque," which was Loudon's own style, or so named by him. Loudon regarded Repton'a school "as combining all that was excellent in former schools, and in fact as consisting of the union of an artistical knowledge of the subject with good taste and good sense." Repton labored in the same direction as did Downing, to unite and harmonize country houses with the surrounding scenery. His works are filled with instruction, and should be carefully studied by all who wish to acquire information or cultivate their taste on these subjects. We copy the following chapter, with its illustrations, giving some account of English cottage residences three hundred years ago.

Some of the most elegant cottages erected in this country, within the past ten or twelve years, are i\n this old English style, though variously modified, according to tastes and circumstances, and to adapt it to the present state of society.