Aloud Blount, Medium; a Story of Modern Spiritualism. (Tinsley Brethers.)—The
Rev. Mr. Ball, who thinks that the Eucharist is nothing else than a mesmeric circle, and Mrs. Pugsby, who finds herself trans- ported from lodgings at Camden Town to a villa near Maids, Hill, are characters which it is sufficiently easy to recognise. Satire can hardly avoid being personal, nor does the author of Maud Blount go beyond the limits of what is allowed. At all events, he treats Mr. Ball and all sincere believers in Spiritualism with respect, though he laughs at their credulity. His real purpose, and a very just one it is, is to point out the evil which is sure to follow, especially to women, from the indulgence of the nervous-hysterical condition which acting the part of " medium " requires. The exposure of the imposture which permeates, though it may not constitute, the system is well done, and the utterances of the manly and devout Campbell as to the utterly valueless character of the so-called apiritualistic communications are excellent.
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