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 
Brockwell Park, in the parish of Southwark, consisting 
of 78 acres, at a cost of £122,000; of the Hilly Fields, 
42 acres, for £42,000; of Ravenscourt Park, in 1888, 
of 32 acres, at a cost of £61,600. 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 necessity 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 
