Town Planning and Modern Architecture at the Hampstead Garden Suburb.
(T. Fisher Uuwin. is. net.)—Various matters of the greatest importance are discussed in this pamphlet. Every one, it is true, cannot live at Hampstead, and there are those who find the air at a height considerably above the cross of St. Paul's too strong for them,--to the old, especially, a more moderato altitude is commonly desirable. But that the Hampstead Garden Suburb Company has done, and is doing, a good work is beyond doubt. It enables a man to get in a fine locality a well-built house of his own at a less cost than he would incur by renting it. Here is the case of a house worth £55 per annum. If he purchases, lie pays £100 down, £887 (repayment of loan, with interest, at 421 9s. 2d. per month), and £8 per year ground-rent. This, with rates, comes in twenty-five years to £1,572 10s. If he rents it, he pays .21,375 (twenty-five times £55), plus rates, or £1,760. The purchaser, therefore, finds himself better off by £188 10s. plus the asset of an unexpired term of seventy-four years.. House-hunting, people should look at this pamphlet.. *
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