is here again in London. Such a medium should satisfy the persons who are interested in him as to his capacity for evoking genuine phenomena. We also learn that Miss Lottie Fowler, who we know to be excellent for form-manifestations, is again to be in London. The present exigencies of the cause will probably not require so much of the material element to be shown to observers; and Lottie Fowler may have a high duty to perform, if she would be willing to take part in the weighing-machine experiments that have probably been the only useful products of the "materialisation" craze of 1876-77. If "Lottie" would trust herself with physiologists who are desirous of arriving at scientific results, and disdain mere gapers for eccentricity, we doubt not that a brilliant harvest of facts might accrue.

66 'HERALD OF PROGRESS" (NEWCASTLE-ON-TYNE).

(July 22-August 19.)

This is the Newcastle journal that concludes (at least we hope so) the controversy between Mr. Enmore Jones and a few of the country spiritualists of the North. The warfare has become personal. Mr. Jones has the advantage of keeping his temper, and the objectors have at last had to take refuge in "terms of endearment" that are "frequently used in the North country.". -A. T. T. P. continues his "Historical Controls," the one this time being "Joseph Balham, a thief and suicide." We note the slip in the well-known quotation from Virgil, "Facilis descensus," etc., which, by the omission of the verb est, and the introduction of the word et summas reads oddly. Auras requires ad before it; and in the last sentence the hic and hoc are transposed. This is nothing like Mr. Peterson's style, and he would certainly not have done this. "Critic" gives a very good letter on "Over-Credulity," showing some of the errors that are, alas! not alone the appanage of country spiritualists. -Mr. E. Jones gives his definition of "What is Orthodox Spiritualism," which is conveyed nearly in the same words as in his platform at Langham Hall some years ago. He suggests, sensibly enough, a systematic investigation into the mechanism of the dual powers of spirit and spirit-body (soul) as developed in dreams, instinct, mesmerism, biology (?), clairvoyance, memory, reason, etc.; their self-action, and their action when influenced by other powers, animate and inanimate; and that the Herald of Progress should record these facts. Since the personal death of Mr. Sergeant Cox, and the corporate death of the late Psychological Society, no one undertakes this labour but a German newspaper. A careful investigation, such

Enmore Jones proposes, would be of the highest value to enquirers, and might redeem Spiritualism of the charge of being unscientific and inexact.- -The Herald of Progress has much improved lately.

"LA CHAINE MAGNETIQUE" (PARIS).

(July 15.)

This paper comes to us at the epoch of the death of its great founder, Baron Dupotet. From the amount of honest praise that appears to have been lavished on the tomb of this good old man we dare not detract a word. Suffice it to say that his tomb was attended by all the glory of French necrology addresses, and his manes were talked at during a whole number of the Chaine Magnétique. We are perhaps in these days a little too prone to ignore the manner wherein French people always orate over their dead; but the late Baron Dupotet deserved all that appears to have been said about him.

-This magazine contains a very strong letter by Madame Catherine Psovalla against the late M. Leon Favre Clavairoz (brother of Jules Favre) being called a Spiritist. On the other hand, the authoress points out that M. Clavairoz believed firmly in the immortality of the soul, and the continuation of our individuality, but he did not admit re-incarnation. He was consequently a Spiritualist, and as distinguished from the Spiritists, or re-incarnationists, as he was from the Animists or Ghost-seekers. If this article is perhaps a little strong, it has the advantage of extreme brevity and lucidity.--We almost wonder how the Chaine Magnétique will get on in the absence of its original and chief writer. But all that But all that may be inferred from a careful selection of facts, as governing the future judgment of the world, may be favourably predicted respecting this excellent paper.

“LICHT MEHR LICHT!” (PARIS).

(July 24-August 21.)

The very good selection of anecdotes that has been already commented on in this amusing and valuable paper is continued, though, as the anecdotes are good in themselves, and so far as we know unpublished previously, we should have been very glad if there had been a more distinct classification or correlation of the witnesses that certify to the genuineness of the Occurrences. The ghost of a domestic animal is described at length in the article headed "Die Spuck Katze." Some of the

translations are given from the work of Joseph de Maistre, and carry out the theories of Allan Kardec. There is, however, in this paper, a dearth of original information. All the articles, if we except those that are avowedly from the pen of some spirit, are extracts from papers in America or elsewhere. If we read over the Continental papers, and see in how many cases the recommendation-" Foreign journals, please copy"has been strictly and emphatically preserved by the editors, we are able to perceive exactly how far the matter can be said to be original. When Licht mehr Licht began, and contained the criticisms of Mr. C. Reimers on the Spiritualist press, we were able to discern a far more satisfactory paper than is now shown to us. And surely Germany, the country of solid facts, can afford to have a more exhaustive epitome of the phenomena of Spiritualism than we could realise among the non-Teutonic

races.

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"DE ROTS" (OSTEND).

(May, June, July, August, 1881.)

The Ostend Spiritual Journal has always maintained the highest position among the writings of Continental spiritualists. It is partly printed in the good old Flemish language, the very sight of which rejoices the hearts of all persons that feel an interest in the languages and thoughts of their fellow-spiritualists; and partly in what, by courtesy, must be called French. The communications in the Flemish language are of the ordinary sort of mediumistic character, and jump at all metaphors and tropes before they express any definite idea. The article, "De la Superstition," is not of the intellectual sort that we might have expected from learned Flemings, some of whom have perhaps had greater opportunities to observe the history of past religions than we may imagine in our own land. Some of the facts alleged with regard to the veneration of medals are a little too vague; and we should be glad if persons who are really qualified to judge, and to give evidence, could tell spiritualists somewhat about the alleged miraculous effects of the medal of St. Benedict at Brussels in November, 1880, and in London in July, 1881. Some of the forms of exorcism given are scarcely those which are in all rituals, and probably they have been inaccurately copied. De Rots, however, will always mark the spirit of the Flemish mind; though if Spiritualism allies itself with the libres-penseurs of Belgium, its doom will be fixed in that active and intelligent country, where science has never been obscured or ignored.

"BANNER OF LIGHT" (BOSTON, U.S.A.).

(July 16-Aug. 6.)

The Banner of Light gives from the pen of "Resurgam," a writer well known in England, an epitome of the facts observed through the mediumship of Mr. Joshua Fitton, who has given séances at Littleborough, in England, when forms of the "John King" type, sometimes with a lamp, appear to have been manifested. Some of these had their identity recognised as the daughter and sister of persons present at the circle. If the description of these form-manifestations is accurate, we have clear evidence that the phenomena worked in the presence of Mr. Fitton was of a most striking character. The account in the Banner of Light is certainly more full and exact than any we have read in the English papers.- -Dr. Ditson continues his review of the foreign Spiritualistic exchanges, which is incomparably the best analysis of the foreign Spiritualist newspapers that has appeared in any language. Mrs. Margaret Fox-Kane, one of the original "Fox girls," is now giving séances at New York. -The season is now commencing in full power in America for camp meetings, which appear just now to be held in nearly every favourable locality. At these meetings addresses on the religious aspect of Spiritualism appear to have been frequently given, and all kind of subjects ventilated.--An account of the mediumship of Mr. Henry Gordon appears to have been recorded with more precision than is universal in some of the American papers. It tells us that a form, apparently of a child of five or six years of age, known as "Cobweb" was the constant playmate of a little child, niece of the medium, and used to play with dolls like any child in earth life. The term "materialisation," instead of "form manifestation," continues to be used by the writers in this paper. It appears that on some previous occasion Mr. Gordon has been charged with fraud; yet Mr. Hazard, who is the recorder of this séance, and has had a great deal of experience, has no doubt in the perfect genuineness of the present manifestation. Mr. Hazard recognises his wife, his daughter, his sister Mary, and a brother of his wife. He is also able to criticise with some ease the arrangements of the cabinet, and to assert that it would be. impossible for the medium, who appears not to be too rich a man, to be able to hire six or eight confederates of diverse size to his own, and to pack their artificial paraphernalia within a small cabinet not greatly larger than a fashionable lady's trunk; keeping the whole breathing mass (infants, children, "giantess and all,) contented and quiet until called for to perform their parts in the fraud. -A column is devoted in the Banner to the

verification of spirit messages, and a large percentage of the persons who gave messages in recent numbers appear to be recognised by their friends and relations.--The last number of the Banner contains a minute description of a séance with Mrs. Elsie Crindle, whereat a number of forms appeared, some of whom seemed to resemble a sister of the writer's, who was dead. Mrs. Crindle is stated to be "one of the best mediums in the country for rapping, slate-writing, ballot test, and dark circles."- -The animated controversy that is now taking place between Mr. D. D. Home and the editor of the Banner (who, unlike most English editors, discloses his name) has grown personal, and the advice of the editor,-" better say nothing about it"-appears to be the keynote of the discussion.

"RELIGIO-PHILOSOPHICAL JOURNAL" (CHICAGO, U.S.A.).
(July 9-August 6, 1881.)

The Religio-Philosophical keeps its high standard as a leading exponent of Spiritualistic thought in America. Perhaps its manners are not as our manners, yet it must not be forgotten that there exists in the States a lower grade of Spiritualists than appears to exist in England, and that occasionally sharp words, and sharper actions appear to necessary. Respect to the memory of Judge Lynch seems to be the motto of the Religio-Philosophical Journal, and if the justice administered is sometimes a little too rough, there can be little doubt of its necessity, or its advisability. The conductors insert a long article by Mr. S. B. Brittan, containing a vindication of the medium J. V. Mansfield against certain accusations that had been made by Emmette Coleman, who is a frequent contributor to this paper. Mr. Mansfield had read sealed letters through alleged clairvoyance, and Mr. Brittan adduced sound reasons to reject the notion that Mr. Mansfield ever opens the letter which the spirits are expected to answer through his hand. The second part of Mr. Brittan's letter is devoted to another subject, and the biography of Mr. T. L. Harris is amusing, and if authentic, gives us information that we did not know previously. The gifted historian of the "Diakka," and author of the "Two-in-One" as well as some inspirational poems of more reputation and less merit, appears in early life to have been a member of the Roman Catholic Church.- -The biography of Judge Edmonds, by Hudson Tuttle, appears to give a more elaborate record of the life of the good old man than we remember to have seen in most American journals. This record will be of inestimable future service as materials for a biography.A great deal