nature, direct and simple in her
manners, and impatient of the artificiality and formal etiquette of
fashionable society.' These poems are characterized by great case of
style, flowing rhythm, earnestness in the cause of philanthropy, and
frequently contain high moral lessons. But it is somewhat strange that
the poems of trance writers and speakers, so often marked by exquisite,
varied, and delicate chimes of ringing rhythm, of brilliant words, of
sparkling poetic dust blown from the pages of great writers, and
drifting through the world, should so seldom give us those great granite
blocks of originality, which must constitute the enduring base for the
new era therein announced. Is there nothing new in the world beyond the
grave which they deem open to their vision? We ask this in no spirit of
censure or cavil, for we have no prejudice against the school of
spiritualistic literature, save where it militates against the faith in
our Redeemer.

INDEX TO VOLUME VI.

A Castle in the Air. By E. Foxton, 272

AEnone; a Tale of Slave Life in Rome, 10, 149, 254, 408, 519, 610

A Glance at Prussian Politics. By Charles
M. Mead, 261, 383

A Great Social Problem. By G. U., 441

American Civilization. By Lieut. Egbert
Phelps, U. S. A., 102

American Slavery and Finances. By Hon.
Robert J. Walker, 22

American Women. By Mrs. Virginia Sherwood, 416

An Army: Its Organization and Movements.
By Lieut.-Col. C. W. Tolles, A. Q. M., 1, 223, 330, 601

A Sigh. By Virginia Vaughan, 355

A Wren's Song, 434

Aphorisms, 78, 83, 134, 222, 260, 414, 444, 609, 663

Asleep, 270

Averill's Raid. By Alfred B. Street, 326

Battle of the Wilderness. By E. A. Warriner, 207

Buckle, Draper: Church and Estate. By Edward
B. Freeland, 55

Buried Alive. A Dirge. By Martha Walker
Cook, 189

Causes of the Minnesota Massacre.