Crown 8vo, xx.-392 pp., cloth, price 78. 6d., FOOTFALLS ON THE BOUNDARY OF ANOTHER WORLD. WITH NARRATIVE ILLUSTRATIONS. From the tenth American edition, with emendations and additions by the Author. The author says in his introductory chapter :-I am not in this work about to investigate what goes, in modern phrase, by the name of spiritual manifestations; such as table-moving, rapping, mediumship, and the like. As the geologist prefers first to examine the rock in situ, so I think it best, at this time and in this connection, to examine the spontaneous phenomena rather than those which are evoked; the phenomena which seem to come unsought, or, as we usually phrase it, by the visitation of God, rather than those which appear to be called up through the deliberate efforts of man. I have studied the former much more carefully than the latter, and space would fail me, in a single volume, to dispose of both." The great object of Mr Owen's work is to determine whether, from such sources as these, a contribution can be drawn, not of miracles, but of natural phenomena, to be added to the evidences already in our possession for the immortality of the soul, and the reality of another world near at hand. If this can be done, he is of opinion that what is often a mere theoretical belief, little influencing men's actions, may become a living and ever-present conviction; not, indeed, so engrossing our thoughts as to withdraw them from the active duties of the life which now is, but yet giving us the same grade of assurance which our senses supply as to earthly phenomena, of the sure and certain advent of the life which is to come. "Mr Owen is a thorough conscientious man, an acute reasoner, and a cultivated and accomplished writer."—Atlas. "But his book is not merely curious and amusing, its utility may be recognized even by those who dissent most strongly from the author's conclusions."-Spectator. "It is as calm and logical a work as exists in the English language."Weldon's Register. LONDON: TRUBNER & CO., 8 & 60 PATERNOSTER ROW. THE DEBATABLE LAND BETWEEN THIS WORLD AND THE NEXT. WITH ILLUSTRATIVE NARRATIONS. BY ROBERT DALE OWEN, AUTHOR OF "FOOTFALLS ON THE BOUNDARY OF ANOTHER WORLD. "Cccurrences which, according to received opinions, cught not to happen, are the facts LONDON: TRÜBNER & CO., 8 & 60 PATERNOSTER ROW. All Rights Reserved. 265. j. 98. |