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assortment of work awaiting them, — some of it, as we must 
admit, of no small difficulty. But whilst we would warmly 
encourage these investigations, and are prepared to welcome 
the results, whether the phenomena are traced to od or are 
merely novel manifestations of some form of energy already 
known, we must again express our inability to recognise 
their connexion with Psychical Research, and still less with 
Spiritualism. As far as we see, there is in Reichenbach’s 
phenomena nothing which need be unacceptable even to the 
most determined Positivist, or to anyone who regards the 
phenomena commonly attributed to soul, spirit, or mind as 
the mere outcome of organisation. True certain persons 
can perceive the magnetic luminosity, whilst others fail so 
to do. But this fatft seems to us to stand upon the same 
plane as the well-known differences between man and man 
in the recognition of colours, in the perception of remote 
or minute objects, and in the hearing of very acute sounds. 
II. ATLANTIS ONCE MORE.* 
HE question of “ lost Atlantis,” which most of our 
readers will have considered as finally disposed of, has 
been reopened in a most remarkable work, which, 
whatever conclusion we may ultimately form, deserves a fair 
examination. The author undertakes to prove not merely 
that there once existed a large island, or possibly continent, 
where now extends the Atlantic ocean, but that it was 
densely populated and highly civilised, being the seat of a 
vast empire, with colonies extending from tire Ganges and 
Central Asia to Peru and Vancouver Island; that it was 
suddenly submerged in a tremendous, convulsion of Nature; 
and that all the culture of antiquity was due either to 
refugees who escaped the crisis or to settlers who had pre- 
viously left the island. 
It is plain that we have here a group of propositions not 
necessarily inter-dependent. If we grant a former land- 
* Atlantis : the Antediluvian World. By Ignatius Donnelly. London ; 
Sampson Low, Marston, Searle, and Rivington. 
