SIR DAVID BREWSTER AND SPIRITUALISM. A BooK has just been published, entitled The Home Lise of Sir David Brewster, and is written by his daughter, Mrs. Gordon.* In that part of the book relating to his experiences in Spiritualism, extracts from his own letters and diary are given, from which we quote the most interesting portions :  I have been at two mes “ London, May, 1851. meric séances, one with Dr. Macdonald and the Duke of Argyll, at a Mrs. Holmes’, who utterly failed in her clairvoyant pretensions. A Count Possenti mesmerised her. The other was at Dr. Ashburner’s, where I saw things that confounded me." In a letter, dated London, April 25th, 1851, he tells of a breakfast party at the house of Chevalier Bunsen, and says that the great subject of talk was spirit-rapping, and the moving of tables. He adds:  “ Just as we were discussing the subject, Mr. Bunsen received a letter from the King of Prussia, saying that the experiment was made at the palace by the royal party, who were alone, and no conjuror present. Three of the young ladies had each letters from Berlin, men tioning these experiments, which sometimes fail. One letter stated that it succeeded three times out of seven. . . . Of course it is nonsense, and there must be some trick in it. . . . Mr. Monckton Milnes asked us to breakfast with him to-morrow, to meet Mr. Galla, the African traveller, who assured him that Mrs. Hayden told him the names of persons and places [in Africa which nobody but himself knew. The world is obviously going mad. .. . An American whom I met at Rogers' the other day, told me that hundreds had been sent to lunatic asylums in consequence of the communications made to them by the spirit rappers. . . . The spirit rapping is exciting great interest in London, but very few believe in it, and there are many facts which tend to prove that it is done by some machinery or apparatus by which the hands and feet of the medium may pro duce the observed phenomena." The following is the most important note of all :  “ London, June, 1855.—Last of all I went with Lord Brougham to a séance of the new spirit-rapper, Mr. Home, a lad of twenty, the son of a brother of the late Earl of Home. He went to America at the age of seven, and, though a naturalised American, is actually a Scotchman. Mr. Home lives in Cox’s Hotel, Jermyn street; and Mr. Cox, who knows Lord Brougham, invited me to accompany him in order to assist in finding out the trick. We four sat down at a mode rately-sized table, the structure of which we were invited to examine. In a short time the table shud dered, and a tremulous motion ran up all our arms; at our bidding these motions ceased and returned. “The most unaccountable rappings werc produced in various parts of the table, and the table actually rose from the ground when no hand was upon it. A larger table was produced, and exhibited similar movements. “ An accordion was held in Lord Brougham’s hand, and gave out a single note, but the experiment was a failure ; it would not play either in his hand or mine. “ A small hand-bell was then laid down with its mouth on the carpet, and, after lying for some time, it actually rang when nothing could have touched it. The bell was then placed on the other side, still upon the carpet, and it came over to me and placed itself in my hand. It did the same to Lord Brougham. “These were the principal experiments ; we could give no explanation of them, and could not conjecture how they could be produced by any kind of mechanism. Hands are sometimes seen and felt ; the hand often grasps another, and melts away, as it were, under the grasp. “ The object of asking Lord Brougham and me seems to have been to get our favourable opinion of the exhi bition, but though neither of us can explain what we saw, we do not believe that it was the work of idle spirits." Whatever Sir David Brewster may assert to the con trary, Lord Brougham died a believer in Spiritualism: he has also placed his opinion on record in writing, as will be seen upon reference to the last number of this journal In the book now under notice, Mrs. Gordon attempts no explanation of the phenomeua, beyond simply quoting a letter of an advertising character, from a philosophical instrument maker named Faulkner, published in the Standard a few months ago. Faulkner asserted that he had fitted up the houses of several persons with electrical apparatus to make spirit rapping noises. On being asked for references to persons whose houses he has thus fitted up, he has admitted in writing that he has never fitted up anybody’s house with such apparatus except that of Mr. Addison, a man who is not a Spiri tualist, and who asserts all Spiritualists to be impostors Genuine Spiritual manifestations take place in any house, and are not confined to the home of the medium: the raps also, do not sound like noises mechanically pro duced, for they are phenomena of “life,” and arc full of expression.