21 JULY 1917, Page 16

Tho current number of the Town Planning Review, issued by

the Department of Civic Design, Liverpool University (2s. Gd. net), contains an illustrated account of the designs submitted in the Dublin town-planning competition. The prize design, by Professor Abercrombie, would, if carried out, greatly increase the attractiveness of the Irish capital ; it would also sweep away many of the worst slums and provide new suburbs, as at Clontarf, for the poor alum-dwellers. It would pay Dublin to convert this admirable dream into a reality.