BUILDINGS FOR SMALL HOLDINGS.
Buildings for Small Holdings. By Thomas Potter. (B. T. Batsford. 8s. 6d. net.)—We have pleasure in drawing attention to this exceedingly practical little work by an admitted authority. Mr. Potter is the editor of the Journal of the Society of Clerks of Works ; he is also one of the earliest users of concrete, and the author of an excellent book dealing with the various ways in which it may be employed ; and at the first Cheap Cottages Exhibition he received a prize for the efficiency and economy displayed in the cottages he erected. His drawings in the little book before us proclaim the practised hand, and every page of the text is crammed with serviceable ideas, prices, measurements, and estimates. The manual deals, of course, with the construction not only of outbuildings for small holdings, but with the small- holder's cottage. We are advised as to the varieties of con- struction in studwork, as to building in brick, and as to the different fashions in which, in favourable circumstances, concrete may be profitably used. Mr. Potter once more states effectively the case for one-story as against two-story cottages. He gives in great detail the particulars of a convenient and well-found one-story cottage containing living-room, 14 by 12 ; bedrooms, one 12 by 81, and two 10 by 13}; scullery, 10 by 81 ; dairy, 8 by 6 ; and com- modious lobby, washhouse, fuel-store, larder, dry closet, and W.C., —the cost of which he reckons would be £180, if built of concrete under favourable conditions. The cost of a pair of cottages "should be considerably less than double that of a single cottage."
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