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Blackwood's Magazine, which this month carries double,. con- tains another

paper from the "Diary of a late Physician." We would call the attention of persons not habitually readers of the Magazine to this series of papers. They look like truth, and we believe they are real passages in life—they are at any rate highly interesting sketches. The "Spectre-smitten," in the present i Number, s a most remarkable detail of a case of lunacy, arising from the imaginary vision of a deceased friend. The effect. of a

perusal on the mind is appalling : the history of the indication of mental derangement in this case is as interesting to the psycholo- gist as the details of the story are affecting to the ordinary reader.