[December, 
712 The Cremation Question . 
property of men and which display a certain kind of docility, 
but which do not enter into companionship with man. Here 
we have all kinds of poultry, cattle, &c. The horse, if 
kindly treated, may pass into the third grade. 
In this highest class the intimacy is closer. The animal 
is not merely the chattel but the companion and friend of 
its owner. Here we have only the dog, the cat, the mungus, 
the parrot, and a few song-birds. 
It is a curious faCt, first pointed out, we believe, by Mr. 
Bartlett, of the Zoological Gardens, that no ruminant 
animal can be admitted into this class. Pet lambs, kids, 
calves, fawns, &c., invariably grow vicious as they reach 
maturity, and have to be consigned to the butcher. 
IV. THE CREMATION QUESTION. 
By Frank Fernseed. 
HERE are still many persons living who can remember 
the London graveyards, worse far than any Augean 
stable of old. They can tell us how Dr. George 
Walker, single-handed, grappled with this monstrous evil, 
and how, in the very teeth of misrepresentation, calumny, 
official and parliamentary obstruction, and, worst of all, 
public apathy, he finally triumphed. They can also perhaps 
tell us by what legerdemain his claims as the father of 
modern sanitation have been ignored, and the honours right- 
fully his have been transferred to others. 
But the very same question which called forth the energies 
of “ Churchyard Walker,” as he was familiarly called forty 
years ago, is offering itself afresh to us of the present gene- 
ration. 
Out fathers closed the City churchyards, and laid out 
burial-grounds in what were then open districts, though at 
an accessible distance from London. For a time •all went 
on satisfactorily, and many worthy people thought, and pos- 
sibly still think, that the disposal of the dead was finally 
settled. But London since the formation of the cemeteries, 
whether proprietary or parochial, has continued to grow, 
and these once retired and rural spots are rapidly becoming 
