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K. Fi&ke records a dream of the future 

 world, and expounds his views on the des- 

 tiny of man. The fiction is sustained of a 

 person who was rendered insensible and to 

 all appearances dead for three days by a 

 railroad accident, and whose spirit sojourned 

 in the other world for that time. Recalled 

 to life and earth, he feels himself a stranger 

 among those who were of his kind, and is 

 impelled to leave a record of his experiences 

 and impressions in the abode of spirits. 

 Hints are given of the persistence of the 

 principle of evolution throughout the uni- 

 verse, and of the continued development and 

 perfection of the human race in the after- 

 life. 



A collection of the Rev. Henry Ward 

 Bcecher's patriotic addresses, compiled a few 

 years ago by Mr. John R. Howard, contained a 

 review of Mr. Beecher's Personality and Influ- 

 ence in Public Affairs. This is now separated 

 from the original volume by the author, and 

 published by itself, by Fords, Howard & Hul- 

 bert, under the title of Henry Ward BeecJier : 

 a Study of his Personality, Career, and Injlii- 

 ence in Public Affairs. It is, in fact, an in- 

 teresting and critical biography of a man 

 whose influence on American thought and po- 

 litical tendencies has been second to that of 

 few if any others. The book is embellished 

 with excellent portraits of Mr. Beecher at 

 forty-three, at sixty-five, and at seventy-three. 



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