Editorials

This is a useful book, and timely. In 225 pages T.

In the show-window of the Spiritualist publishing-house and Banner of Light office, on Wadsworth Street, Boston, is a photograph, with a card beside it, bearing the following inscription: THE LATE DR. P.

Attention of Journal readers is called to the advertisement of the pamphlet by Rev. George B.

As will be seen by the following letter, there has been a movement under way to hold another mental healers' convention. As it is but four months since a similar enterprise was attempted, its results must have been very weak, and unsatisfactory to its projectors; else why repeat the effort so soon? This letter was received by a Christian Scientist, and was an attempt to beguile this Scientist into the meeting.

There has been an attempt in Illinois to prosecute a German midwife, for practising her vocation contrary to the new medical laws; whereupon J. E.

The complaint charged her with practising medicine contrary to Chapter 104 of the Laws of the 21st Assembly of Iowa; that, without complying with the provisions of that chapter, she performed the act of healing upon Mrs. George B.

Substitute the word education for government , in Lincoln's famous saying, and it might well be used as a definition of true culture: Education of the people, for the people, and by the people. In practice, if not in statement, this is the motto of the professional monthly called The Popular Educator.

The aroma of good deeds outlines the personality through which they are expressed. It is well to pause a moment in the busy whirl of life, when a great heart ceases to beat, to gather a lesson for the future.

One of the tastiest books of the season comes from the new publishers, Cupples & Kurd,—new in this association of names, but well known in the publication business. The unique but simple binding is a device of Mr.

From Houghton, Mifflin & Co. comes a little volume,—beautifully printed, of antique look, and with plentiful side-headings, bearing the above title.