In the January issue of New English Review, Theodore Dalrymple continues his series on Wales, in which he contemplates burials, cemeteries, churchyards, and shipwrecks.

The French sociological geographer, Jérôme Fourquet, takes the decline of burial in favour of cremation as another sign of the decline—almost the disappearance—of religion in France, or at least of the Christian religion, and there is no reason why it should be any different elsewhere in the western world.