. New Boston; a chronicle of progress in developing a greater and finer city--under the auspices of the Boston-1915 movement. THE COURT OF GEORGE THE THIRD for years been the ambition of the authorof the book, Ralph Davol, whose energyand determination persisted in carryingthe undertaking through, despite thediscouragement of some of those whomight have been expected to be locallyinterested. Despite this feeling, the per-formance passed off to the completesuccess and interest of the audienceswhich, on the Fourth of July, numberedsome three or four thousand people. As is usual in the history of
. New Boston; a chronicle of progress in developing a greater and finer city--under the auspices of the Boston-1915 movement. THE COURT OF GEORGE THE THIRD for years been the ambition of the authorof the book, Ralph Davol, whose energyand determination persisted in carryingthe undertaking through, despite thediscouragement of some of those whomight have been expected to be locallyinterested. Despite this feeling, the per-formance passed off to the completesuccess and interest of the audienceswhich, on the Fourth of July, numberedsome three or four thousand people. As is usual in the history of Pageantry, theperformances brought out unexpectedtalent, latent in many of the partici-pants. So successful was the affair thatit is now proposed to maintain the am-phitheater, as it was arranged for thepageant, with the expectation of utiliz-ing it for other out-door performances,—and another pageant is already beingdiscussed as a not too distant possi-bility!. ill; STAGE EliOM llll \M1III111I \ WHAT IS CITY PLANNING? IN the June number of NEW BOS-TON appeared an article by rand Thompson, the delegatefrom Boston-191o who attended theNational Conference on City Planning,describing the meetings of the conferenceheld in Philadelphia May 15, 16 and the course of his article Mr. Thompsoncommented on the comparative absenceof em])hasis on the social side of cityplanning, and stated that The concep-tion of those who seemed interestedmainly in the technical aspects of thework will have to be broadened if cityplanning is ever to become a live issuein America. The following letter from FrederickLaw Olmsted, in answer to Mr. Thom}>-sons article, is most interesting, comingfrom one of the leading authorities oncity planning in the country. I was much interested on looking through NewBoston for June, to read your impressions ofthe City Planning Conference, especially thoseexpressed in the last paragraph of page 73; and Iam very anxiou
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