TO

John Macleay, Friend and Mentor, Editor

of the Liverpool Post and Mercury, who

was the first to open the columns of a

daily paper to current architectural criticism.

Contents

NO. PAGE
I.The Character of Our Civic Buildings[1]
II.Our Recent Government Buildings[7]
III.The Office Block[13]
IV.Bank Buildings in England and America[19]
V.The Small Suburban House[25]
VI.Our Big Railway Stations[31]
VII.Religious Buildings of To-day[37]
VIII.The Use of The Column[43]
IX.The Emergence of a New Style[50]
X.Who Destroyed Our Towns?[57]
XI.Architecture and Youth[63]
XII.Colour in Street Architecture[71]
XIII.Everyday Architecture[77]
XIV.Modern American Architecture[83]
XV.The Choice of a Small Country House[100]
XVI.Wren as a Baroque Architect[115]
XVII.The Anti-social Contract[125]
XVIII.An Indictment of Coal Smoke[131]
XIX.The Bush Buildings of New York and London[138]
XX.Bath or Bournemouth?[150]
XXI.Regent Street, Old and New[166]
XXII.Fifth Avenue, New York[175]
XXIII.Liverpool Cathedral[184]
XXIV.Dublin in 1924[201]
Author’s Note[206]

I.
THE CHARACTER OF OUR CIVIC BUILDINGS.