That. Lis also noted in a recent paper (Jongschaap and Ottinger 2001) it is remarkable that "...despite the fact that the treatment of common applications such as the calculation of the efficiency of engines, phase behavior, chemical equilibria, etc, are well understood and frequently used, there still seems to be no consensus on the treatment of the fundamentals of thermodynamics." is confirmed again by the issue raised by Professor Lodge's Letter to the Editor about my review of his hook (Lodge 1999).