SOME BOOKS OF THE WEEK.
[Muter this heading we notice such Books of the week as have not been reserved for review in other forma.] The Garden City Movement. By G. Montagu Harris. (Garden City Press, Letchworth. 6d.)—The need for such a work as the Garden City Association has initiated cannot be overstated. London is not so badly off as some of the provincial towns. Between a fifth and a sixth of its population is living two in a room, at Gateshead more than a third, and Dundee is, we believe, worse off than Gateshead. And apparent remedies do not touch the evil, possibly aggravate it. Birmingham cleared 45 acres, displacing 6,500 people and rehousing 950 at a cost of £550,000 ; ' Liverpool pulled down 4,200 houses, and built 830. We earnestly commend to our readers this account of an effort to do good in this direction.—With this we may mention a volume of a more elaborate kind, The Model Village and its Cottages : Bournville, by W. Alexander Harvey (B. T. Batsford, 8s. 6d. net). Here we have plans and elevations and a number of interesting details about the undertaking. Bournville Village is the result of the energetic action of Messrs. Cadbury ; but it is not exclusively reserved for persons in the employment of this firm. About two-fifths of the inhabitants work in Bournville, nearly the same proportion in Birmingham, and the remainder in neighbouring villages. About half work in factories, clerks and travellers make up rather more than an eighth, and the remainder are mechanics, carpenters, bricklayers, &c.
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