5 SEPTEMBER 1931, Page 3

Flood-Lighting in London London's first experience of the flood-lighting of

her most notable buildings, carried out in honour of the triennial Congress of the International Commission on Illumination, was an entirely happy one. Many streets, it is true, were for some time choked with traffic on the first night, and motor-horns did what they could to mar the beauty of a warm though starless night with querulous cacophony. But after all, perhaps they are right who hold that the more the people who want to see a thing, the better it is worth seeing ; and certainly if they were present they were consoled. The buildings and the river looked very brave in the lime-light ; to have seen them thus will enrich our more humdrum acquaintance with their daylight selves for many years to come.