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of significance. Esmerald Thorne, a successful physician, is killed by

an accident to his carriage, and we have here related to us his experiences after death. He is a man who in life has taken no heed of things not temporal, and launched into the world of the unseen, he finds out how unprepared and helpless he is. A book on this sub- ject we do not feel disposed to criticise. Those who know what Miss

Phelps has written on kindred topics will be ready to believe that she has treated this theme with taste and reverence. And we may add the expression of our own belief that the admonition to the worldly-minded thus conveyed is likely to be more efficacious than such appeals commonly are.