The "Country Life" Book of Cottages. By Lawrence Weaver. (Country
Life. 5s. net.)—Plans and descriptions of a large number of cottages (varying in cost between £150 and £600) will be found in this excellently produced volume. Mr. Weaver claims to have given examples of every type of cottage "whether built for the rural labourer, the small holder, the estate servant, the clerk who lives outside the town, the week-ender,' or the people of moderate means and refined taste whoie permanent home must be built with severe regard to economy." Readers who followed the discussion in our columns upon the £150 cottage will find that question argued at length, and will see a photograph of the _pair of cottages at Newland's Corner which served to open the Spectator correspondence. We have no doubt of the great utility of Mr. Weaver's book to those who for one reason or another are setting about the task of cottage-building. —We may mention at the same time Every Man His Own Builder, by George Gordon Samson (Crosby Lockwood; 5s. net), in which detailed instructions of a very practical character are given to those who aspire to build a cottage with their own hands.
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