The cottage movement is scarcely begun in England, and experiments
like those of Messrs. Rayner, near Lynn, where they have built six-roomed cottages at 1251. a piece, will not do much to advance it. A Count de Madre, in Paris, has, however, gone far ahead of all English landlords. He has built twenty-five great houses for workmen, and let them in flats, consisting of sitting room, bed-room, and kitchen, at a rent of three shillings a week. All the tenants have the use of a court-yard as playground, and a grand central ball is to be erected for the use of the workmen's wives. The Count pledges himself never to increase the rent of a tenant, so that he may decorate in confidence, never to eject one except for non-payment of rent, and never to distrain on furniture. The experiment has now been tried for two years, and the result is a profit of six and a half per cent. The Count is about to erect other large buildings on the same plan and for the same object.
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