"F. and I hope for a fortnight by the sea in August." writes a friend today "if we can get in anywhere The italics are mine, to emphasize one of the chief social phenomena of the day. It you are very rich or very poor (in the latter case there are copious philanthropic societies to look after you) a holiday between late July and mid-September is simple enough. If you belong to the undeserving middle-class, specially if you want a so-called quiet holiday, it is impossible. And it is precisely in these weeks that most of the middle-class must take holidays not at all.
There are no "quiet places" left on the English coasts, and fewer and fewer inland. The normal seaside crowds of August will be swollen beyond measure by the new holidays-with-pay movement in factori Cheap motor cars, charabancs and railway excursions empty the towns upon the be: To provide for all these millions many seaside towns are building holiday camps; a monster one, to hold' 1.500 people in chalets with a capacity of one to four persons each, is to be opened. at Clacton next week. fine old Georgian houses (three in Palace Yard are particularly beautiful) and argue that the site is out of the way, which in some respects it is, and that it would be far better to complete Parliament Square by removing the ugly houses on the western side and stop for ever the danger of another sky scraper rear-g itself on their site—which is in a pressing danger.
The opposition also twit the office of Works with being still obsessed 5 by the Ruskinian teaching that nothing domestically had been built worth looking at since the death of Queen Anne.
In fact there is a strong tide of feeling in favour of Georgian houses. The pulling down of Adelphi Terrace and of the eastern side of Berkeley Square, both to be replaced by mountainous blocks of flats, has taught us what we have lost and has awakened in many people who never thought of such things before a genuine regret. Georgian domestic architecture might be described as all that modern domestic architecture aims at and isn't—restful, well-proportioned, conveying a sense of spaciousness, ornamental without being fussy. But then it was built in a spacious age, by and for people who were unhurried, tranquil and sublimely sure of themselveg—all qualities which have now completely disappeared.
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