The Clerk and the Architect of the London County Council
have prepared a valuable illustrated report on the Proposed Demolition of Nineteen City Churches (P. S. King, 3a. 6d.), which gives a short history and description of each of the churches, with photographs and a map of the City. The Architect, Mr. Topham Forrest, "strongly urges that steps should be -taken which will secure the retention of most of the
churches now threatened with destruction," inasmuch as they " constitute, in his opinion, some of the most interesting monu- ments of the City of London." The Clerk emphasizes the fact that the greater part of the cost of building at least twelve of the churches was probably defrayed from public money, in the shape of the coal tax. The Church would doubtless be glad to know whether the Council will help to solve the financial problem in any other way than by disposing of the valuable sites of those churches, which are no longer needed for public. worship.
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