The Psychological Review A MONTHLY MAGAZINE OF SPIRITUALISM & PSYCHOLOGICAL RESEARCH. VOL. III. JULY TO DECEMBER, 1881. LONDON: E. W. ALLEN, 4 AVE MARIA LANE, E.C., AND AT THE OFFICE OF THE PSYCHOLOGICAL REVIEW, 1881. THE PSYCHOLOGICAL REVIEW. JULY, 1881. NOTES AND COMMENTS. 66 THE REVIVAL OF 'THE PSYCHOLOGICAL REVIEW." IN introducing the Psychological Review afresh to the notice of those interested in Spiritualism and cognate studies, it is probably desirable for historical purposes to place on record the fact of its revival after an interregnum of fifteen months, and also to state briefly the position it will occupy with regard to the movement. As already announced in a prospectus which has been pretty widely circulated, our main object will be to supply succinct and compendious information concerning the facts and phenomena of Spiritualism, giving that word its widest meaning; and in particularising the points thereby involved, we may instance the following: (1) To set forth the phenomena in such an accurately recorded form as may commend the subject to the attention of the general public: (2) To add its quota to the sifting and tabulation of the vast accumulation of facts already to hand: (3) To determine and name the subtle forces at work in the production of the phenomena in question : (4) To discuss the laws which govern, and the philosophy to which the facts lead up with that clearness and efficiency as may at once satisfy thoughtful readers, and stimulate investigation. A systematic principle of arrangement will be adopted, and careful analyses made of what each fact seems to prove or 1 VOL. III. |