PARKS ANI) SQUARES. London has many squares and open places. but they are by no Inca IIR adequate for so large a papulat bin. Among the principal squares are Trafalgar Square. with fine monuments, and surrounded by handsome buildings. including clubs. hotels. the National Gallery. the National Portrait Gallery. the Royal Humane Society building, and the fine church of Saint Martin•s-inetnc-Fields, containing the graves and monuments of man celebrities; Lin coln's Inn Fields, the largest square in London, surrounded by offices of the legal fraternity; Hanover Square, with Saint George's Church. fatuous for its fashionable weddings; and the aristocratic Grosvenor, Portman, and Berkeley squares. In London County there are thirteen parks, with a total area of 2900 acres, of which the most thronged is Hyde Park, 390 acres, extending in the West End from May fair to Kensington Gardens. This park, sur rounded by line residential districts, has a beauti ful lake, broad avenues, shaded by large trees. and line expanses of grass With flower-beds and clumps of shrubbery. In the height of the social
season, when the avenues are crowded with hand sonic equipages and many thousands of pedestri ans throng the walks. probably no park in the world equals the brilliant and varied scone that Hyde Park presents. Farther west are Ken sington Gardens, more thickly planted tree; and plants than is Hyde Park. Regent's Park. in the is famed for its zoological and botanical gardens. large crowds being also at tracted there in summer by the cricket matches to which the northern part of the park is de voted. Saint James's Park and Green Park. not far from Trafalgar Square, are among the old royal parks. long since open to the public. Besides other smaller parks, the gardens along the Thames Embankment are very popular; play grounds here and there are maintained for chil dren, and disused churchyards, with various squares and semi-private gardens. add to the number of breathing-places. Excursion. to Ep ping Forest and many other delightful rural dis tricts are very largely patronized.