BIBLIOGRAPHY. A chapter on Cremation treat ing the subject from the sanitary and economic standpoint is contained in Baker, Municipal En gineering and Sanitation (New York, 1901).
from the coke is allowed to mix in the second air-chquiber with the air heated by passing through the side air-passages. The incinerating chamber is thus filled with gas of an intensely oxidizing character in a state of incandescence. The degree of heat can he regulated in the most exact manner. There is no smoke and little visi ble flame before the body is introduced, and if the coffin is made in accordance with the regula tions laid down, there is no smoke and no noise during the cremation. The process occupies about one hour, at the end of which there only remain the inorganic bases of the bones, in the form of silver-gray, pumice-like fragments. The cremating chamber is at no time visible to mourners. The coffin, when brought into the chapel, is placed on a catafalque. When the
committal sentence in the religious service is Cobb, Quarter Century of Cremation en ,forth America (Boston, 1901), includes x complete history and statistics of the movement in the United States, with brief supplementary matter and tables for Europe. The book also contains a very full bibliography of the subject. Relat ing to the periodical literature on the subject, Mr. Cobb says: "During the period covered by this record there were published in the United States three magazines for the spread of knowl edge concerning the subject. The Columbarium was issued from Philadelphia, The Urn from New York, and The Modern Creniatist from Lan caster, Pa. . . . After a brief and valiant struggle for existence they were compelled to quit the field. and there is not to-day printed in the English language a single journal devoted to the interests of cremation."