New London and Its Ways.

When the Campanile fell in Venice last summer, a loud outcry of indignation was heard in London and Young Italy was warned that, if it could not preserve its own great monuments, the rest of the civilized world would have to step in and take them in charge. Mansions still survive here and there in the country to testify to the genius of architect Robert Adam. He is also to be studied in some of the spacious houses of Portland Place, familiar to every American who stops at the Laugham Hotel. Indeed, it is the growing extravagance in municipal government that is so discouraging. The Borough Councils, in the first flush of their new power, are even more reckless than the County Council.