31 MAY 1913, Page 17

RURAL AMENITIES.

[To THE EDITOR OP THE "SPECTATOR."]

SIR,—Every lover of rural or even of urban beauty must feel extremely grateful to Mr. J. St. Loe Strachey for the petition to the Surrey authorities as set forth in the Spectator of May 10th. Would that it might be laid to heart and acted upon by every town and county council in the United Kingdom ! What is so surprising to the ordinary man in the street, if he thinks at all, is that in spite of all that is talked and the thousands of words that are written on the subject, the mischief still goes on. Hoping that my little plea may be cast into the scale with others on the side of the preservation of beauty.—I am, Sir, &c., S. H. E. L.