Moreover, adequate provision should be made for public and semi-public buildings. In each town plan spaces should be marked out for public schools, and each school should have about it ample playgrounds, so that during all the year the school premises shall be the children’s center, to which each child will become attached by those ties of remembrance that are restraining influences throughout life. Next to the school, the public library should have place; and here again the landscape setting should be generous and the situation commanding. The townhall, the engine-house with its lookout tower, the police station with its court of justice, and the post-office, all naturally form a group of buildings that may be located about a common or public square, so as to form the suburban civic center. There was a time in the older portions of the country when church and churchyard occupied the chief place in the town; and to-day enterprising real estate dealers find it to their advantage to give to one or more religious denominations building sites. But so numerous are the sects into which Christianity has divided itself, and so diverse are the nationalities to be provided for, that the suburban church building rarely offers to the eye any relief from the monotonous ugliness of the airless street which it helps to frame. Also, the old churchyards, with their serried ranks of slate headstones, their cypresses and weeping willows, and their rows of tombs, made a direct appeal to the deepest feelings of the human heart; but the disorder of the modern town cemetery would seem to carry the idea of turbulence even to the grave itself. Perhaps, in the coming times, the spirit of unity will draw people together in religion as well as in business, and such a syndication of religious effort will prevail as shall find expression in permanent buildings devoted to the moral advancement of all the people. The day of the splendid cathedral may never dawn for this country, but certainly in every community there will be buildings for the help of the unfortunate, and the amelioration of those desperate conditions which form the reverse side of great prosperity. [Illustration: XXXVII. FOREST OF FONTAINEBLEAU, FRANCE. The Croix de Franchard, an illustration of a country road intersection.] Then, too, there are the various railway stations and the electric lighting and power buildings, semi-public structures which should be treated in such manner as to present a smiling face to the public. A well-arranged grass plot, a few shrubs, and a little regular attention will give to the plainest building a setting that, like a soft answer, will often turn away wrath from a public-service corporation.