Turning for a few moments, in conclusion, to men’s attire, the lecturer suggested that the ill-success of dress reformers hitherto had been the too-radical changes they sought to introduce.  We could be artistic without being archaic.  Most men were satisfied without clothes fairly in fashion, a tolerable fit, and any unobtrusive color their tailor pleased.  He would suggest that any reformation should begin with color.

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ARTISANS’ DWELLINGS, HORNSEY.

The erection of artisans’ dwellings is certainly a prominent feature in the progress of building in the metropolis, and speculative builders who work on a smaller scale would do well not to ignore the fact.  The Artisans, Laborers, and General Dwellings Company (Limited) has been conspicuously successful in rearing large blocks of dwellings for artisans, clerks, and others whose means necessitates the renting of a convenient house at as low a rental as it is possible to find it.  We give an illustration of a terrace of first-class houses built by the above company, who deserve great praise for the spirited and liberal manner in which they are going to work on this the third of their London estates—­the Noel Park Estate, at Hornsey.  On the estates at Shaftesbury and Queen’s Parks they have already built about three thousand houses, employing therein a capital of considerably over a million sterling, while at Noel Park they are rapidly covering an estate of one hundred acres, which will contain, when completed, no less than two thousand six hundred houses, to be let at weekly rentals varying from 6s. to 11s. 6d., rates and taxes all included.  The object has been to provide separate cottages, each in itself complete, and in so doing they have not made any marked departure from the ordinary type of suburban terrace plan, but adopting this as most favorable to economy, have added many improvements, including sanitary appliances of the latest and most approved type.

The most important entrance to Noel Park is by Gladstone Avenue, a road 60 ft. wide leading from the Green Lanes to the center of the estate.  On either side of this road the houses are set back 15 ft., in front of which, along the edge of the pavement, trees of a suitable growth are being planted, as also on all other roads on the estate.  About the center of Gladstone Avenue an oval space has been reserved as a site for a church, and a space of five acres in another portion of the estate has been set apart to be laid out as a recreation ground, should the development of the estate warrant such an outlay.  The remaining streets are from 40 ft. to 50 ft. in width, clear of the garden space in front of the houses.  Shops will be erected as may be required.

[Illustration:  Suggestions in architecture.—­A row of comfortable dwellings.]