Note.

In reprinting (by request) the foregoing paper, the author would endeavour to make good its deficiencies by directing inquirers to useful sources of information upon the phenomena and philosophy of Spiritualism.

"Footfalls on the Boundary of Another World," by Robert Dale Owen, is a work of much research, written in a philosophical spirit. It treats of "Hauntings," "Apparitions," "Dream-warnings," and other phenomena of apparently spontaneous character, or occurring without the agency of "Mediumship," as generally understood. Each section is illustrated by well-chosen and remarkable narratives, the nature, authenticity, and probabilities of which are carefully analysed. Planchette, or the Despair of Science," by Epes Sargent, records comprehensively the various phenomena of modem Spiritualism, and gives an interesting rcsum6 of the many theories entertained as to their nature and origin.

As strongly corroborative of the results attained by the Committee of the Dialectical Society, and as showing the relation of scientists to the phenomena in question, three pamphlets by William Crookes, F.R.S., the well-known spectroscopist and chemist, are especially worthy of notice, viz.:—(1) "Experimental Investigations on Psychic Force;" (2) "Spiritualism Viewed by the Light of Modern Science;" and (3) "Psychic Force and Modebn Spiritualism," a reply to the Quarterly Review and other critics. The labours of this painstaking investigator are well nigh conclusive as regards the occurrence of the physical phenomena, but cannot yet be considered as sufficiently matured to dispose of the questions of intelligence and causation.

The five works just named, together with the Report of the Committee of the Dialectical Society, make out a most important case for investigation; but for those who may wish yet further to pursue the literature of the subject, the following volumes may be mentioned as covering several of its departments, whether spiritual, sceptical, or religionistic:—"Judge Edmonds on Spiritualism," being a narrative of experiences in trance and writing mediumship, prefaced by a weighty and judicial introduction; "Concerning Spiritualism," by Gerald page 12 Massey, one of the latest works, and valued by many Spiritualists for the distinction therein drawn between normal and abnormal mediumship; "The Debateable Land between this World and the Next," by Robert Dale Owen, a work addressed to the religionists of Christendom; "The History of Spiritualism," by Mrs. Hardinge; "Hints for the Evidences of Spiritualism," by M. P.; "After Death, or Disembodied Man," by Randolph; the works of Andrew Jackson Davis and Hudson Tuttle; and Mrs. De Morgan's "From Matter to Spirit," the result of ten years' experience in Spiritualism, but chiefly interesting to the investigator on account of its introduction, from the pen of Professor De Morgan, the eminent mathematician. These and other relative works and periodicals may be obtained at Bums' Library, 15 Southampton Row, Holborn, W.C., London.

No amount of reading, however, can take the place of actual experiment; and this may be achieved wherever parties or committees of from four to seven members can conveniently be formed, pledged to regularity in attendance at meetings, and determined to abide by an orderly and persevering system of investigation.