The report of the Ring Edward Memorial Committee which was
published in Friday's papers, proposes a scheme which, we are bound to say, appears to us open to several very serious objections. The advisability of erecting a group of colossal statuary, rising in all to a height of fifty feet. so very near to the similarly gigantic group dedicated to the
memory of Queen Victoria opposite Buckingham Palace, is surely more than doubtful. We do not want to see the Mall turned into a kind of congested area for white marble statues or a Sieges Alle'e of Titanic proportions. Even more to be regretted is the proposal to lay waste a considerable portion of the precious free-shaded, bird-haunted, flower-spangled lawns of the Park by the creation of a huge new road and bridge, with enormous marble balustrades and petrified orna- ments. We do not profess to be admirers of the present suspension bridge, and we do not doubt that Mr. Lutyens, with his fine sense of design, might produce a beautiful bridge, but surely we can have that without the stony Sahara which is now contemplated between Queen Anne's Gate and the Mall.
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