ADVICE TO INQUIRERS Those who know no intelligent Spiritualists and nothing about Spiritualism, yet who want to investigate, are recommended to begin by reading tho first two books mentioned in the preceding paragraph. Then they should call upon the chief publisher of Spiritual books in London, Mr. J Burus, 15, Southampton-row, Holborn (where the are sure to be treated with attention and courtesy), and ask for the names and addresses of say four good professional or non-professional mediums accessible to the public, and “recognised by Spiri tualists as reliable for powerful physical manifes tations.” There are plenty of mediums or of people who fancy themselves inediums, who can rarely shov anything satisfactory, and with whom an inquirer might waste much time. He should then get say two sittings by daylight in his own house with each of the four mediums, because the power varies in strength at times with every medium; at the end of the eight sittings he is sure to be thoroughly intcrested in Spiritualism, and to have thrown overboard the imposture theory, which is the clumsiest and most superficial one of all. Many of the public have vague ideas that electri city can do all kinds of unaccountable things, but A GENUINE MEDIUM NEVER HAS ANY HESITATION IN SITTING WITH A CIRCLE IN A HOUSE AND AMONG FURNITURE WHICH HE OR SHE HAS NEVER SEEN IN HIS OR HER LIFE BEFORE. Even with a good medium it is best, if time be valuable, not to investigate at crowded public circles, because assuming imposture to be at work, there is no felling who may not be aiding, among the numerous spectators. Besides, where so many people want to ask questions of the spirits, the investigator has not time to put many himself. Investigators are recommended to be thus careful in the selection of mediums, because as public attention is gradually more rivetted upon Spiri tualism, impostors are sure to spring up, and even to advertise in Spiritual periodicals, for the editors manifestly cannot investigate the claims of ever professing medium. At present (November, 1869) there is very little imposture mixed up with the Spiritual movement in Great Britaiu, and there are only four or five paid mediums in all London. Good paid mediums deserve high praise rather than that censure which is thrown upon them even by Spiritualists; they find house-room; they are ready to receive strangers at stated times when private circles could not sit for the convenience of inquirers ; the sittings exhaust their vitality like a hard days' work, and they have to put up with much abuse when uneducated roughs unaccus tomed to investigation persecute them by attend ing. The inquirer should mentiou to the medium, civilly and kindly, his doubts respecting the phenomena he may witness; the invisible beings around will at once, on the spot, do their best to remove those doubts, or an explanation will be obtained from the medium. When there is real foundation for suspicion, the best plan is to go often to tle medium, accompanied by witnesses, detect the imposture, and prosecute the medium for obtaining money under false pretences. Genuine manifestations are not under the control of the medium, so that a paid medium who does not get manifestations, is under a great temptation to try to make them. This fact makes it difficult for Spiritualists to speak absolutely as to the relia bility of any paid mediunis, however genuine the majority of the manifestations may be which occur in their presence. After getting thoroughly inte rested in Spiritual phenomena, the inquirer should take his friends to see them, and afterwards get up a private circle in his own house, Manifestations will most likely not be obtained at the first sitting but after very few or very many sittings they will come; gradually the great barrier of the grave which now separates friends will be broken down and after the experience of a year or two the dread of the beautiful natural process, called death," will be destroyed, as it is destroyed in the minds of all experienced Spiritualists, except those who during life have done harm to their fellow-creatures. Very high spirits and thein homes are perfectly invisible to very low spirits this, coupled with the fact that there is no more uniformity in the next world than there is here, accounts for the endless contradictions about spirit life given in Spiritual communications. An investigator of a logical and scientific turn of mind may possibly have to closely follow up the subject for some weeks before gaining the absolute knowledge that the manifestations come from spirits. Unlike Mr. Home and a few other excep tional individuals, most mediums are developed for one or two special purposes only. Thus, vio lent physical manifestations, inexplicable by any of the recognised laws of matter, may be seen in the presence of one medium, but mental tests and questions may bring forth a majority of inaccurate and unreliable answers. Where good mental teste are obtainable through a mediuin, the physical manifestations may be altogether absent.