364 CONCLUSION. 



Corporation for 25,000. Within the same period 

 numerous additions have been made to the London 

 Parks. Clissold Park, one of the most beautifully laid 

 out and planted parks within the Metropolitan area, and 

 with an area of 53 acres, was bought by the joint 

 action and contributions of the Metropolitan Board, the 

 Local Board, and private subscribers, at a cost of 95,000. 

 The same method was adopted for the purchase of 

 Brock well Park, in the parish of South wark, consisting 

 of 78 acres, at a cost of 122,000 ; of the Hilly Fields, 

 42 acres, for 42,000; of Ravenscourt Park, in 188S, 

 of 32 acres, at a cost of 01,600. Sir Sydney Water- 

 low, in 1891, made the generous gift of 26 acres at 

 Highgate, now known as Waterlow Park. The Dulwich 

 College Trustees made a similar gift of 72 acres for the 

 formation of a public park at Dulwich. These are strik- 

 ing evidences of the strength of feeling which has grown 

 up of late years, as to the necessit}*- of ample open 

 spaces for the recreation and enjoyment of the teeming 

 multitudes of our great city. 



In looking back on this long contest of thirty years, 

 extending over more than an average generation, it is 

 sad to recall what breaches have been made in the ranks 

 of those engaged in it. Of the early coadjutors in the 

 movement, John Stuart Mill, Henry Fawcett, Charles 

 Buxton, Lord Mount Temple, and many other true 

 friends, have not lived to see the success of the cause. 

 The great Judges to whose decisions the victory was so 

 largely due Lord Romilly, Lord Hatherley, Sir George 

 Jessel, Sir Charles Hall, and Sir W. M. James are no 



