mother and her babe-Character of preceding phenomena how far indicated-The visionary excursion-Why a Livo- nian school-teacher lost her situation—Habitual apparition APPARITIONS OF THE DEAD........ The spiritual body-May it not occasionally show itself?— A question not to be settled by closet theorists-Oberlin- His belief as to apparitions-Lorenzo the Magnificent and the Improvisatore-Mr. Grose and the skeptical cardinal- Anna Maria Porter's visitor-The dead body and the boat- cloak-Apparition in India-An atheist's theory examined -The brother's appearance to the sister-Apparition at the moment of death-The nobleman and his servant-Appa- rition witnessed by two independent observers-Louise-The Wynyard apparition, with corroborative testimony-Appa- rition of a stranger-The iron stove-Glimpse of a species of future punishment?-The child's bones found-Is there repentance and progress beyond the tomb?-Opinion of one of the Christian Fathers-The debt of three-and-tenpence— Human character little altered by the death-change ?—The stains of blood-The victim attracted to earth ?—The four- teenth of November-Through a (so-called) ghost an inac- curacy in a War-Office certificate is corrected-The old Kent manor-house-The Children family-Correct information The furies of the ancients not implacable-Modern examples of what seems retribution-The beautiful quadroon girl— Can dreams embody requitals ?-What a French actress suffered-Annoyances continued throughout two years and a half-A dying threat apparently fulfilled-What an Eng- Vlish officer suffered-Was it retribution? How Senator Linn's life was saved-Was it clairvoyance, or prescience?—Help amid the snow-drifts-Unexpected con- A theory must not involve absurd results-Whence can the dead return?-Character but slightly changed at death- Spiritual theory involves two postulates-Hades swept out along with purgatory-How the matter stands historically -The Grecian Hades-The Jewish Sheol-What becomes of the soul immediately after death?—An abrupt meta- morphosis?-A final doom, or a state of progress?-How human character is formed here-The postulates rational- What has resulted from discarding Hades-Enfeebling ef- fect of distance-The loss of identity-The conception of two lives-Man cannot sympathize with that for which he is not prepared-The virtuous reasonably desire and expect another stage of action-Human instincts too little studied -Man's nature and his situation-The Ideal-The utterings of the presaging voice-Man remains, after death, a human creature-Footfalls-A master-influence in another world— Admissions demanded by reason-The invisible and inaudible world-We may expect outlines rather than filling up- LIST OF AUTHORS CITED. 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