NEW Enrrions.—Modern Cremation. By Sir H. Thompson. (Kogan Paul, Trench,
and Co.)—Sir Henry Thompson publishes an enlarged and revised edition of his work on cremation. He sketches the history of the practice in modern times, states afresh tho arguments that can be urged for its adoption, and combats the objections—one might almost say, the one objection—the possible impunity to the poisoner. He advocates, in view of this difficulty, the appointment of an inspector who should in all cases, whether it is proposed to bury or to cremate the corpse, certify to the cause of death. This would meet the difficulty, but would present a difficulty of its own. What would the individualists say to the creation of another army of that hated genus, the inspector ?— In"The Minerva Library of Famous Books," we have The Life of Arthur, Duke of Wellington, by Charles Duke Yonge. (Ward, Lock, and,oCo.)—Professor Yonge has supplemented and corrected the original work (published in 1860) by histories and memoirs which have since appeared.—Messrs. F. Warne F.3end us a cheap popular edition of Southey's Life of Nelsen; and Mr. W. Heinemann a similar issue of Imperial Germany : a Critical Study of Pact and Character, by Sidney Whitman.
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