The discussion upon Burials still continues, and is now assuming
this form.- The wisest method of disposing of the dead is to bury The discussion upon Burials still continues, and is now assuming this form.- The wisest method of disposing of the dead is to bury them, in all reverence, in wicker coffins and unbricked graves,—a process practically equivalent to burial in actual contact with the earth, yet avoiding the difficulties and disagreeable ideas created by the absence of any coffin. The difficulty now is to induce any large proportion of persons to deviate from the established cus- tom, and in this country it can be got over only by the great beginning first. The movement of some years ago, to which Charles Dickens was so attached, to reduce the preposterous cost of burials by abolishing their hypocritical adjuncts, failed entirely, no one having the courage, by commencing the reform, to seem wanting in respect to the dead. Mr. Seymour Haden, though he convinces the public, will, we fear, fail for the same reason.
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