The Country Gentleman's Estate - Book,1902. (16 Cockspur Street, Pall Mall, S.W.
3s. 6d. net.)—This volume, the tenth annual issue, contains as usual a great mass of useful information. We may mention a very complete set of figures illustrating the cost of building, with the cognate operations of excavating, &e. The establishment of a ratio between the cost of labour and the cost of material is an enlightenment. In excavating, labour costs eleven- twelfths, and materials and use of plant one-twelfth; in tiling, which stands at the other end of the scale, the proportions are one- fifth and four-fifths. Then there is a special account by Mr. J. Hotchkiss, with diagrams, of various kinds of cottages. There are seven designs, each with a maximum and minimum cost. (No. 2 is described as slightly cheaper than No. 1.) Taking the mean between these, we get these figures : £197 108., £172 10s., £150, £135, £160, £250 (this last includes dairy). All have three bed-* rooms ; the other accommodation varies. The feature of a down- stairs bedroom is very commendable. There is a paper on "Bacterial Sewage Disposition." The various notes on agriculture, stock, estate management, sport., are as practical as they are varied,
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