Modern Developments of the Marvellous *Histoire du Merveilleux, dans les Temps Modernes. Par Louis Figuier. Paris, 1860.The Spiritual Magazine. London, 1860.The Arcana of Christianity, and various Sermons. By the Rev. T. L. Harris.

The pretensions x)f the persons who call themselves spiritualists, and who have been commonly known heretofore by the less dignified title of " spirit-rappers," have lately been advanced with a boldness, and pushed with a pertinacity, that seem to demand some examination from the press. As long as the performances at a spiritual seance were considered esoteric, and the delusions of the unfortunate mediomaniacs were displayed only within the charmed circle of their deranged disciples, it was possible to cherish a hope that this trans-Atlantic folly might gain no permanent footing upon our shores, and to believe that a total disregard of its existence would best promote the great blessing of its final consumma-