—Durham is fortunate in the zeal of its defenders, and
now Lincoln so. London is as notable for their absence, and the apathy of its millions. superb view of the river-sweep from Htmgerford Bridge is hope- sly mutilated by unrestricted commercial intrusions. One monster tly blankets with its white behind the key to the prospect, St. Paul's; taller throws out the scale of stately Somerset House, reducing it to a iniature. Of the ugly hybrid that has replaced the nobility of Waterloo ridge there is only this further to be said, that the root trouble was unhappy absence of foresight which plumped down power-stations hove the bridges with a consequent demand for magnified passage-widths span to suit huge fuel-craft. Other bridges will doubtless go in their turn and we shall end with single-span structures, reducing the great Thames to the proportions of a ditch.—Yours faithfully,• z Hampstead Way, North End, N.W. z z.
• D. S. MACCOLL.
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