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6 in the chapter devoted to the subject and the writer confidently anticipates that if his advice is followed, advice framed upon forty years of actual experience, the casualties due to fire panics will be appreciably minimized.

These are some of the issues connected with fire-fighting, which have been dealt with in as exhaustive and interesting a manner as possible in this volume. The particular intention of the writer has been to avoid lengthy and tedious explanations, which would be beyond the comprehension of the untrained layman. To that end an appendix has been supplied replete with all the tables necessary to the scientific fireman. For the rest, the problems of fire control have emerged from the chrysalis stage of experiment into the fully developed formulæ of an exact science, and the time has arrived when no one can afford to be ignorant of the first principles governing the same. A great quantity of useless information is assimilated by the public; is it too much to hope that opportunity may be found for the perusal of a subject so closely connected with the welfare, safety and homes of the people.