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��all the grades of esteem, Trom that or • the gate of extensive wisdom ' to ' the moon-viewing g»te.' Tlic fourteen are only outer gates; within are innumerable ottiers; and no gate is without a name. Sometimes the names are simply aesthetic; sometimes they arc moral sentiments taken fVom Confucianism. The inner life of the people is bo entirely in theory only a mixture of the two ideas, — the good and the beautiful, — and the veneration for a name so universal, that there is do structure above the most ordinary kind but bim its dis- tinct eiiiiobliiii; ]ii-ui«T iiiinu'.

��occupy the space not otherwise built over. It is a peculiarity of the far east that the domestication of natuie — to use a t«rm which seems beat to express the artificial shaping of nature to man's private enjoyment — is varried to the happ\ halfway i^oint between the two extremea common with us. and which are represented bj the park on the one hand. where we sliape verj little, and the flower- gardeu on the other where we mould a great deal too much The grounds that a Korean delights to nander through are an adaptation or a copi of the fentiiies of n real landsca]>e.

���Then, as to ihes eeond half of the title, — the term a ■ place. ' The place ia not so much a palace as a collection of palaces. Within is a very labyrinth of buildings, courts, and parks. There are audience- halls for the king and the heir apparent; ttien the separate palaces in which they respectively live; then the queen's apartments, whose size may be imagined from the several hundred court-ladies of various positions, who arc constantly in attendance upon her, and whom no male eye save his Majesty's is ever permitted to see. Each of these seta of houses is approached by its own series of court3-ards and dependent buildings- Hut perhaps the chief beauty of the spot lies in the grounds, half gardens, half parks, which

���reduced to a convenient scale, or left of tj natural size, according to circumstances, introduced where he desires them to exist, are in no sense the conventional museum atyl of arrangement we display in the fashioning of our flower-gardens. Nothing would strike them as more inartistic than a collection of plants, however beautiful iudividually.arrang* in a manner so wholly unnatural. With thei such a collection can he seen, and can only seen, in the show-grounds of a florist, atl'ects them as an ordinary shop-window does us. In consequence, they more particularly affect the flowering-shruba to a comparative neglect of the annuals. Perhaps nature has aided them to the custom by producing the

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