16 NOVEMBER 1918, Page 12

WINCHESTER COLLEGE WAR MEMORIAL. [To THE EDITOR OF THE "

SPECTATOR."] lovers of old Winchester will be thankful to Miss L. G. Moberly for her protest against the proposed destruction of the houses in Kingsgate Street. Individually, perhaps, the houses possess no artistic merit, but their very irregularity, grouping, and varied colouring lend a picturesque charm to this old-world street. One can scarcely think it possible that the authorities really mean to follow in the steps of Wordsworth's " Degenerate Douglas." Have any of them ever seen these houses in " the light of setting suns," especially autumn suns ? To one unimportant passer-by at such times they invariably recall the line :-

" A rose red city half as old as Time."