RENAMING LONDON.
[To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR.") Sjit;--Mily I 'Ingest to the London County Council that they have a fine opportunity at Millbank fornaming a group of streets round the Tate Gallery after distinguished British painters; and further, that they might in renaming London streets formulate a plan whereby different quarters should be selected for per- petuating the names of our worthies ? Paris has done this. The Medical School is the centre of streets named after scientific and medical men ; the Plans de l'Europe has tribu- tary streets called after European cities; the Opera quarter is named after musicians and actors. At present one street near the Tate Gallery is named Atterbury,—a respectable name, but quite unconnected with art. And why should hfillbank, which is historic, give place to the Grosvenor Road, which only immortalises a big landlord whose ancestors were obscure when the Abbot of Westminster was flourishing as the owner of lands and buildings and vineries and mills ?—
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