nes and flashes of light which illuminate the heavens.

Now certain material bodies have the power of drawing those atoms in
close affinity, and when they are thus drawn, the shapes alluded to are
clearly discernible by the human eye.

I discovered another fact, and that is that every human being emits a
light, and in the case of those called "mediums," it is intense like the
Drummond light, and a spirit standing in its rays will become visible to
mortal sight.

These experiments interested me highly, as they had been heretofore
inexplicable to my mind.

_Apropos_ of the topics of to-day, I must here relate what I have heard
of the "Lord Byron scandal," which is creating so marked a sensation at
present. I am told by Byron and others that Lady Byron, recently arriving
in the spirit world and finding matters very different from what she had
expected, and that she was received nowhere as the wife of Lord Byron
(who having resided there some thirty years had formed a new and happy
alliance), was stung with jealousy and vexation and hastened to inspire
Mrs. Stowe to repeat the story which had become a matter of faith with
her, hoping thereby to inflict a punishment on Byron, who ignored his
relation to her.

If she had waited until she had resided a little longer in spirit life
she would not have pursued so foolish a course. But I must bring this
long letter to a close, assuring my friends that I have the prospect of
as active a life before me as the one I have just closed on earth.

MARGARET FULLER.

_LITERATURE IN SPIRIT LIFE_.

To a mind familiar with the literature of the ancient Greeks and Romans,
which has studied the Scandinavian Edda, and is intimate with the more
modern German, French, and English authors, the literature of the spirit
world opens up a mine of interminable wealth.

The libraries in this world are vast catacombs or repositories of buried
knowledge. Here are found histories of decayed races, dynasties, and
nations which have vanished from earth, leaving scarce a monument of
their progress in art, science, and mental culture. In these libraries
the student of history will find the exploits of ancient peoples
recorded, and a description of their cities, with the temples and towers
which they built and the colossal images which they created.

I own to the surprise which I experienced when I discovered that printed
books were a part of the treasures of the spirit world. But the scholar