Crematoria in Great Britain and Abroad. By Albert C. Freeman.
(St. Bride's Press. 58. net.)—Mr. Freeman makes a plea for the practice of cremation, and urges various reasons, more or less cogent, in its favour. The ancient practice had its seamy side. Allusions in classical authors make us realise that the process was often imperfectly performed. But with improved methods this difficulty has disappeared. The main part of Mr. Freeman's
volume is occupied with descriptions, pictorial and verbal, of crematoria actually existing or designed.—Along with this we may mention, by way of contrast rather than relation, Historical Tomb- stones of Malacca, by Robert Norman Bland (Elliot Stock, 102. 6d.) These tombstones are Dutch and Portuguese. The stones have been photographed, and the inscriptions are printed as deciphered and translated. Why- "Historical," except as indicating the two periods of occupation, we cannot say.
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