Book Notices. THE GLOWWORMW: The First Australian Newspaper on Spiritualism. Melbourne, December 31st, 1869. A CLOSE examination of this newspaper, with its super fluity of words printed in italics and small capitals, with its trenchant style, and its many words which would appear to be ill-spelt to any but a good philo logist, revealed that somebody was at the helm of the new journal, whose writings are not unknown in one section of Great Britain. Long before seeing the name in the imprint, we were perfectly certain that Mr. B. S. Nayler, late of Milford, South Wales, has full control of The Glowworm. This new newspaper deals principally with the re ligious aspects of Spiritualism. As the writer is well versed in the literature and early history of the Bible, and has a forcible and convincing method of expressing his ideas, many good answers to sectarian attacks upon Spiritualism may be drawn from the columns of the little Australian journal. The Glowworm reveals very clearly that the phenomena of Spiritualism which are witnessed in Melbourne bear the same characteristics as in every other part of the globe, and that the burden of the first messages given by the spirits is “ Love  Love—nothing but Love. Among the spiritual com munications of interest in the journal, is one from the mother of Mr. Nayler, dated April 15th, 1869, in which she says:  "There are many millions of spirits who do not know of such a method of communicating, and others to whom such a pro cess is new ; therefore they have to learn the modus operandi. You must wait with patience the unfolding of the law. It is only a very short time since I understood this way of holding communion with you. Previous to it my only way of in fluencing you was by impression, which mode I alway exercise as well, though you are not cognizant of the fact.” In another message, dated March 25th, 1869, his mother said:  “ My dear son, blissful beyond comparison with aught on earth, is this my home. The language we speak is of the soul We do not commune orally, but by our eyes. Everyone’s condition, thoughts, and desires, are known by the aroma which surrounds them, and we do not, cannot hold communion with all—only those with whom we are in affinity, or, that their personal spheres attract us, so that we are all linked together in the bonds of love. There is no discord here in our heavenly home—truly one of many mansions prepared for all the children of the earth. Each one will find their home here ; some in brighter and more glorious homes than others, but all, that place adapted to their wants and desires." The Glowworm also contains messages from Mr. Nayler’s father, and one dated December 2nd, 1869, from Dr. J. Field, who quitted the earth-life at Milford, Pembrokeshire, in May, 1864. In one portion of the paper Mr. Nayler states that John Wesley often made his home at the house of his (Mr. Nayler’s) grandfather Mr. George Merryweather, at Yarm, in Yorkshire, and that Wesley privately owned that he did not believe in eternal damnation, a doctrine which he purposely ceased to preach in public, though he said nothing openly about his belief in the universal restoration of all mankind. In a list of eminent Spiritualists published in The Glowworm are the names of Lyndhurst, Bulwer Lytton, De Morgan, Robert Chambers, William Howitt, Ash burner, Elliotson, John Stuart Mill, Tennyson, Varley Sir Charles Wheatstone, Professor Hare, Washington Irving, Abraham Lincoln, Robert Dale Owen, Judge Edmonds, Horace Greeley, Longfellow, Whittier, the Emperor of the French, Victor Hugo, Guizot, Leon Favre, and Garibaldi. The Glowworm, from beginning to end, is filled almost entirely with the argumentative writing of the editor, and it might, with much more accuracy, bo entitled, Mr. B. S. Nayler's Opinions of Spiritualism.