Handicrafts and Reconstruction. Notes by Members of the Arts and
Crafts Exhibition Society. (John Hogg. 2s. 6d. net.) —This collection of short and suggestive essays by Miss May Morris, Professor Lethaby, Mr. H. Wilson, Mr. Okey, and other well-known members of the Society, which wits used to call the " artful craftam n," deserves to be read by those who are seeking occupations for disabled men and occasional work for the small-holder's leisure. We are inter sted especially in Mr. R. W. S. Weir's brief notes on " Cottage Building," and Mr. Thackeray Turner's practical little paper on " Local Building Crafts." We are glad to see that Mr. Thackeray Turner de- nounces the abominable practice of building a cheap cottage with hollow walls—" that ie, two walls four and a half inches think built two inches apart and tied together with iron bars "- which " means that the house is enclosed in a damp unventilated air jacket." He puts in a word for the old-fashioned cob, as a cheap and good alternative to brick or stone, and urges that the foolish by-laws which virtually prohibit its use should be amended.
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