LETTERS TO THE EDITOR.
A CIVIC SENSE IN ENGLAND?
[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.]
Sin,—You have an article on "A Civic Sense in England ? " in the Spectator for February 23rd, in which you ask a question about this city, which may be sufficiently answered by the last two reports of this Society, which I have pleasure in enclosing. This Society has been in existence since 1918, and its previous reports are equally suggestive of a care for the amenities of the city. Our work this year has been much more extensive than in any previous year, including an energetic campaign for organizing public opinion in support of the Repertory Theatre, and there is very little doubt that we shall succeed in retaining the theatre.
This Society was also responsible for setting up the Advisory Art Committee which preceded the recently formed Commis- sion of Fine Arts in London by eighteen months, and, as the enclosed report of that Committee shows, we have not only set up this Committee, but have known how to make it really effective—a much more difficult task. It seems strange to us that the Birmingham Civic Society—which has a reputation throughout the country and abroad, as being the most active body making for an improvement in the civic sense in England —should be unknown to you. Hence this letter, and its (Hon. Secretary.) The Birmingham Civic Society, 37 Bennetts Hill.
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