Twenty-eight people in theme United States, - observe the authors of
Fire (Putnam', 15s.), perish "in-fires every day. If these twenty-eight died of what " the doctors call psitacossis " [sic], there would be a terrific upheaval, but fire-fatalities seem to leave America undisturbed. The book is then an attempt to train people, by precept and awful example, in fire-conduct and to urge on house-owners the installation of anti-fire appliances. In - these respects its advice need not apply to America alone. To drive the lesson home many moving stories of fire catastrophes are related, and as Mr. Thomas F. Dougherty, who collaborates with Mr.- Paul W. Kearney on the book, is Assistant Chief of the New York Fire Department, he has a large fund of experience on which to draw. It is interesting to hear that " London has only one outbreak for every four in New York " and that "the loss (in London) is one-eighth the average damage here."
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