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loosening the seal to tie one or more knots in this endless cord," and so of all'the 

 other phenomena of spiritualism. 



The book is filled with results of all manner of experiments in magnetism, 

 chemistry and physics, which, whether attributable to spiritual influences or not, 

 are quite inexplicable. After all, however, is it strictly logical to draw this par- 

 ticular inference from an inexplicable set or series of facts ? Is the evidence so 

 complete and full as to fasten upon the spirits, indisputably, the origination of 

 these mysterious circumstances and occurrences ? Taking it as a matter of proof 

 alone, as our author and his translator desire, we fail to be convinced of the ac- 

 curacy of their conclusions. At the same time it is not a subject to be lightly 

 brushed aside. The facts given in this book, and known to all of us, lead some- 

 where, and it is the duty of educated and skilled scientists to follow them to their 

 legitimate and sure conclusions, whatever they may be. 



OTHER PUBLICATIONS RECEIVED. 



Catalogue of the fossils of the Cincinnati Group, by Jos. F. James, Custodian 

 Cincinnati Society of Natural History; IVard's Natural Science Bulletin, Roches- 

 ter, N. Y., quarto, monthly, 50 cents per annum; Some New Compounds of 

 Platinum, by F. W. Clarke and Mary E. Owens, University of Cincinnati; An 

 Abstract of the Results Obtained in a Recalculation of the Atomic Weights, by 

 Prof. F. W. Clarke ; An Account of the Recent Progress in Anthropology for the 

 years 1879 and 1880, by Otis T. Mason; The Palseolithic Implements of the 

 Valley of the Delaware, reprinted from the Proceedings of the Boston Society of 

 Natural History; Boulder County as It is, by John K. Hallowell, published by 

 Colorado Museum of Applied Geology and Mineralogy, 15 cents; Minnesota 

 Medical Mirror, Monthly, N. M. Cook, M. D., $1.00 per annum; Proceedings 

 of the Boston Society of Natural History, Vol. 20, part 4 and Vol. 21 part i. , 



EDITORIAL NOTES. 



The test made at Philadelphia, on the 5th 

 ultimo, of the telegraph and telephone lines 

 ot the Underground Electric Company was 

 declared eminently satisfactory. The stations 

 were one mile apart and the slightest whis- 

 per could be heard from one to the other, 

 and the solenoid or metallit circtiit was pro- 

 nounced far superior to the ground circuit. 



President Arthur's remarks upon polyg- 

 amy have aroused, all over the country, a 

 renewed and concerted opposition to it. It 

 is, however, unnecessary for 'the people of 

 this county, to take any such action, since 

 they "put themselves right on the record," 

 more than forty years ago, by rising en masse 

 and driving the Mormons from her borders. 



