18 AUGUST 1888, Page 24

Reincarnation : a Study of Forgotten Truth. By C. D.

Walker. (Ward and Lock.)—Reincarnation is our old acquaintance metem- psychosis, it being understood that the transmigrations of the human soul are not from man to the lower animals, or vice versa, but from one human habitation to another, either here or else- where. Mr. Walker thinks that doctrine combats materialism, the "arch-enemy of the race," as he truly calls it, by a most subtle and deadly warfare." There is some interesting literary matter in the volume, allusions in writers ancient and modern to the doctrine, and the like. This, in our judgment, is the most valuable part of the work. The argument will hardly have any of the effect in the great materialist controversy that the writer expects.