Church Designs for Congregations. By James Cubitt. (Smith and Elder.)—Mr.
Cubitt deals with a difficulty which in these days of Church building has made itself very strongly felt,—the unfitness of the ordinary type of Gothic church, the nave with broad aisles, separated by numerous columns, for our forms of worship, in fact, for- congregations meeting in the way and for the purposes that our congre- gations both in the Church of England and the Nonconformist communi- ties ordinarily meet. In such a church about one-third of the wor- shippers cannot see the preacher, and, very likely, another third cannot see the reader. With this Mr. Cubitt deals in a very sensible, practical manner, addressing himself to the public, " without whose intelligent concurrence," as he very rightly remarks, architecture cannot make any great movement. Any one who is likely to have a voice in am affair of Church building would do well to read the volume.
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