23 NOVEMBER 1889, Page 24

Cremation and Urn - Burial. By W. Robinson. (Cassell and Co.)—That the

question of "Cremation versus Burial" will have to be decided soon, no reasonable being doubts. Mr. Robinson's brochure is a vigorous plea for urn-burial, likely, we should say, to be more effective from the illustrations of ancient urns which adorn his book. There are some exceedingly unpleasant facts about the cemeteries of the day ; one illustration that the writer gives us, a section of a fourteen-storied grave, is a most forcible presentment of the evils of burial. The difficulty will be the " proof of death," which will necessitate much legislation, we fear.