The London County Council have given London another public garden,
and this time a very large and beautiful one in the centre of a crowded district. On Saturday Sir John Hutton formally opened the great garden in the centre of Lincoln's Inn Fields—a piece of ground seven and a half acres in extent, and well replenished, as the Elizabethans would have said, with ample lawns and flourishing young trees and tinderwood. The buying up of the private rights in the Fields cost E12,000, but we doubt if £12,000 were ever better laid out for the interests of London. The children of Long Acre, Drury Lane, and the poor quarters adjacent, will now have a playground worth playing in, and the men and women on summer evenings somewhere to sit down out of doors and away from the din and the smells. Even the barristers on their ivay back from chambers on a spring evening will benefit, for they need no longer to be oppressed and made miserable by seeing the urchins playing drearily on the hard cobbles outside, or flattening their noses against the railings that shut them out from the pleasant greensward and the flowering trees.
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