There is, from long custom, so great a desire among all ranks in England to see the fire that warms, their apartments, that the most convenient, cleanest, and cheapest methods of heating them, are sacrificed to this single circumstance. Accordingly, persons who attempt the improvement of stoves are compelled to endeavour to combine what appears to be irreconcilable, namely, the appearance of a bright open fire, with an economy of fuel, regularity of temperature, and without producing a draught through the apartment. Of the various contrivances in which the attainment of these properties have been attempted, there are but few worthy of notice.