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There will, I feel certain, be general satisfaction at the effect of the flood of appeals to the Minister of Works—most notably Mr. Churchill's in the House of Commons on Wednesday—against the proposed removal of Thornycroft's admirable statue of General Gordon (one of the finest statues in London, according to that high authority. Lord Edward Gleichen) to Sandhurst. Mr. Key, it is true, has not given a binding undertaking that the statue shall remain in London, but he has said he will keep it if a suitable site —the old site in Trafalgar Square being taken up by the Jellicoe- Beatty memorial now under construction—can be found, and it is inconceivable that it should not be. The whole question of London statues, incidentally, needs lookine into. • JANUS.
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