Modern Cottage Architecture. By Various Architects. Edited by Maurice B.
Adams. (B. T. Batsford. 10s. 6d. net.)—Here we have fifty plans of rural and suburban cottages, lodges, isolation homes, nurses' cottages, by various well-known architects. The editor has prefixed explanations, suggestions, and generally con- tributed much useful information, artistic, practical, and financial. It would have been highly interesting if we could also have had some estimates of expense. Probably the cost of materials and labour varies so much that it would be impossible to give such estimates to any good purpose. In %XXIX., however, we have two estimates, one working out at 8d., the other at 91, per cubic foot. But as the plan gives us three sitting-rooms, five bed- rooms, and bath-rooms, we have the cottage orne, not the agricul- tural cottage, about which we want facts. One criticism we have to make on the designs. However picturesque the lattice window, the sash Window is far more convenient. You can regulate the supply of air by opening it a little or much, as may be required.
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