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Contents
On Thought-Reading. By Edward W. Cox, Serjeant-at-
Law, President of the Psychological Society of Great
Britain... ... ... - ... ... 85
Cape Jask - ' ... ... ... 89
Dr. Halloek’s Last Letter Home 90
The National Association of Spiritualists 90
Mr. Tyerman in England ... 90
Henry Slade in Australia:—Professor Baldwin and Dr.
Slade 91
Traces of Law in the Appearances of Spirits, Embodied and
Unembodied. By W. Stainton Moses, M.A 92
Correspondence:—Mediumship and Medicine—A Request
—Strange Assertions through Mediumship—Spiritual
Phenomena in Birmingham 94
Spiritualism in the Roman Catholic Church 96
Sorrow. By Dollie Maitland. (Poetry.) ... ... 96
Paragraphs:—Was George Combe a Medium? 88; Public
Tests, 89; A Spirit Message, 90; Is it a True Pro¬
phetic I)ream? 95
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