16 JULY 1887, Page 19

Spirit - Workers in the Horne Circle : an Autobiographic Narrative of

Psychic Phenomena in Family Daily Life, extending over a Period of Twenty Years. By Morell Theolsald. (T. Fisher Unwin.)—An amazing book, which we cannot profess to criticise. We can but express a conviction that we should prefer our home circle without the spirits, though they do light fires and cook. One of the most curious things in the book is a fan-simile of some spirit-writing, headed by a Greek quotation from Jastin Martyr. The Greek, though badly written, is mostly correct, though in a sentence which the author quotes from it there are two misprints.—Perhaps it might be as well to correct any impression made by the work just mentioned by consulting The Preliminary k.port of the Seybert Commission. (J. B. Lippincott, Philadelphia, U.S.A.)—Mr. Henry Seybert left some money to the Philadelphia University for the purposes of a Committee to inquire into the phenomena of spiritualism. Here we have the first results of its inquiriee.