[1] The "Explanatory Discourse" is the last of Chambers' works to be reissued in 20th-century facsimile. Chambers' _Designs of Chinese Buildings_ (London, 1757), rpt. in facsim. (New York: Benjamin Blom, 1968), concludes its text with his essay "Of the Art of Laying Out Gardens Among the Chinese," pp. 14-19, rpt. in John Dixon Hunt and Peter Willis, eds., _The Genius of the Place_ (New York: Harper & Row, 1975), pp. 283-288. _A Dissertation on Oriental Gardening_ (London, 1772), of which the illus. title-page reappeared in the 2nd ed. (London, 1773), hence here, was rpt. in facsim. ed. John Harris (Farnborough, Hants.: Gregg International, 1972). I quote from pp. 111-113 of "An Explanatory Discourse"; Chet-qua drops his mask on p. 159 below. Concerning the fad see Hugh Honour, _Chinoiserie: The Vision of Cathay_ (London: John Murray, 1961), esp. ch. vi. [2] John Harris, _Sir William Chambers, Knight of the Polar Star_ (University Park: Pennsylvania State Univ. Press, 1970), p. 24 and pls. 7, 94 (not to be confused with the earlier accepted practice of designing ruins: pls. 31, 81). For the "fanciful" aspects of his town house see pp. 11, 217. [3] For the evidence of correspondence esp. from 1770-74 see Heather Martienssen, "Chambers as a Professional Man," _Architectural Review_, 135, 2 (1964), 277-283. [4] Harris gathers evidence for the meeting with Frederick, pp. 33-35, and on pp. 18-19, surmises that Blondel's teaching "may well have been the foundation of Chambers's eclecticism.... The choice of a Parisian education underlines Chambers' European character." [5] _Boswell's Life of Johnson_, ed. George Birkbeck Hill and L. F. Powell (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1934), IV, 188. [6] _Designs_, first page of unpaginated Preface; _Dissertation_ (1773), p. iii. Cf. "William and John Halfpenny" [Michael Hoare], _Chinese and Gothic Architecture Properly Ornamented_ (London, 1752), e.g. pl. 2. [7] _Designs_, second page of unpaginated Preface. [8] W. J. Bean, _The Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew_ (London: Cassell, 1908), pp. 194-195, following Sir John Hill, _Hortus Kewensis_ (London, 1768); Chambers, _Plans, Elevations, Sections and Perspective Views of the Gardens and Buildings at Kew_ (London, 1763). [9] "Frederick Law Olmsted's Contribution," _Roots of Contemporary American Architecture_, ed. Lewis Mumford (New York: Reinhold, 1952), p. 111. _Dissertation_ (1773), p. 103 and cf. his letter of 13 May 1772 in Harris (1970), p. 192; Walpole, _On Modern Gardening_, ed. W. S. Lewis (New York: Young Books, 1931), p. 66; Mason, _The English Garden_, Book I (1772), final line. [10] _Designs_, p. 15 (ed. Hunt and Willis, p. 284).