3 MAY 1919, Page 21

Messrs. Longman have reprinted William Morris's five well-known lectures on

Hopes and Fears for Art in a neat pocket edition (3s. 6d. net). His pie ; for a more serious consideration of architecture should be read again in these days of great building schemes. " We are heedless if our houses express nothing of us but the very worst side of our character both national and personal." Yet that is true, unhappily, of most new suburbs as well as of the mean streets in towns.