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No. 231.—(Vol. X.—No. 4.) LONDON : FRIDAY, JANUARY 26, 1877. Published Weekly; Price Twopence.
Contents,
Spiritualism in Foreign Countries. By Emily Kislingbury
and 0. Carter Blake, Doc. Sci 37
The Apparition of Major Blomberg ... ... 38
Mr. Blackburn’s Seances. By C. Carter Blake, Doc. Sci. ... 39
Spiritualism in Holland 40
The Human Voice Considered Psychologically. By Pro¬
fessor Charles J. Plumptre ... 40
The Psychological Society of Great Britain:—Clairvoyance
not Thought-Reading—The Psychology of the Human
Voice—One of Dr. Carpenter’s Inaccuracies 41
Popular Errors about Dr. Slade 42
A Spirit Hand ... 42
Dr. Slade’s Seances. (With Illustration.) 42
The Republication of Gregory’s Animal Magnetism 42
The Chief Vice of the Age. A Sermon by the Rev. H. R.
Haweis, M.A. ... ... 43
Poetry:—The Fright of Rowley Hill, by Henry Henderson.
A Surprise, by Mrs. Edna Hall, of Boston, U.S 45
Correspondence:—The Spiritualism of Dr. Robert Cham¬
bers—A Seance with Mr. Eglinton—Help for Mrs. Law¬
rence—Mr. Riko’s Work on Spiritualism—Vaccination
Direct from the Calf—William Lawrence—Healing Me-
diumship ... U v 46
The Slade Appeal ' ... 47
The Utterances of a Mouthpiece of a Conservative Govern¬
ment . ... t, 47
Spiritualism in Liverpool 47
American Intervention in the Slade Case 47
Bigh Court of Justice, Exchequer Division, January 19th—
Monck. Appellant, and Hilton, Respondent 48
,Dr. Tyndall on Spontaneous Generation... 48
Paragraphs:—Fortnightly Meetings, 39; Re Lawrence, 42;
The Happy Man 48
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