27 FEBRUARY 1892, Page 3

Canon Scott-Holland's " open letter" on the subject of the

elections for the London County Council, commences ad- mirably with insisting that to require high personal character in the representatives is the most important of all the aspects of the coming elections. But he forgets, we think, in his enthusiastic pleading for the elevation of the status of the poor, that premature and ambitious attempts to do too much may lead even the noblest and most upright men into enterprises which will end in disaster and perfectly unantici- pated scandals. Prudence and modesty are as essential to bodies like the London County Council, as integrity itself.