* Readers of the Spectator will recall the plea made
in this paper last year for the throwing open of our squares to the children of London in the summer. Mr. G. Topham Forrest; the chief architect of the London County Council, has been lecturing on London of the future to the Institute of Public Administration. Mr. Forrest, like many other civic reformers, suggests that Russell Square and other squares might be thrown open to the road instead of being hidden behind railings and banks of shrubs as they are at present. London, north of the Thames, is probably as well provided with open spaces as any large city in the world, but by means of iron bars and soot-laden evergreens we contrive to make the minimum use of our squares, which are chieflyfrequented by cats. I wish that the Spectator could continue its campaign for throwing open our squares with renewed energy. It should at least be possible to repeat what has been done in Lincoln's Inn Fields in such places as Russell Square, which is largely given over to offices.
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