rejoicing in beauty and the gladness it gives. But poorer
London will be still in its streets, often hot, always noisy, generally airless, rarely beautiful. It is good to know that for these, who are the large majority, the electric tube will soon make hours and days (if not weeks) of holiday possible by bringing them for twopence to the cleaner air and spaceful quiet of Hampstead Heath. But the crowds that can be thus benefited will spoil the beauty and peace they come to seek unless the land round the new station can be kept as open space and the inspiring view preserved. Already £33,500 has been promised to the Hampstead Heath Extension Council, but it is £39,000 that is needed, and if the balance of f.:5,500 cannot be subscribed, or promised, in the next five weeks, the £33,500 must be given back, and the eighty acres will be built ever and the beautiful view lost for ever. Thus it is that I intrude into your columns to suggest to those who are leaving London that they may have the privilege of helping those who are staying to enjoy some of the good and pleasure which are the common right, as they are the common aim, of "all sorts and conditions of men." Donations, or promises, may be sent to Mr. Edward Bond, M.P., or to Sir Robert Hunter, General Post Office, or to
Warden's Lodge, Toynbee Hall, Whitechapel.
[It is greatly to be hoped that London will not lose the incalculable benefits of the Hampstead Heath extension owing to the failure to raise the last £5,500.—En. Spectator.]
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