13 APRIL 1918, Page 16

New Towns after the War. By New Townsmen. (J. M.

Dent and Sons. Is. net.)—In this spirited and stimulating pamphlet the authors urge that as a million new houses will be required in the five years after peace returns, mainly at the cost of the State, it would be better in every way to build a hundred " garden cities, accommodating in the most efficient and comfortable way between four and. five millions of people." The programme is heroic, but they contend that it is entirely practicable. They have yet to consider the views of the four or five millions of people who might not want to remove far away from their present homes.