of one second as the time lost between each letter of the alphabet, manifestly much time is lost before such letters as T, W, and Y, are reached. This loss may be obviated by writing the alphabet in the following way, and by getting the spirits to adopt a method of signalling hereinafter described : A B E D C H F G J I I K M N C Q P R T S U W V X Y Z The six crosses in the foregoing alphabet should be pointed to one after the other, and when the cross in the same line with the letter wanted is touched, the spirits should be requested to give one, two, three, four, or five raps or tilts, to denote the identical letter. If the letter be the third in the horizontal line, three raps should be given. Thus, to get the letter Y, five crosses only have to be touched in succession, instead of twenty five letters, as would be the case by the ordinary plan, so the saving of time is very great, and three or four messages may be obtained in the time now occupied in getting one only. The speed of signalling may be still further increased, by arranging the letters so that those which occur most frequently shall be in the upper lines. Printers’ com positors know very well which are the letters most commonly used in the words of the English language and the best order of arrangement is as follows: T O A E I R N D H S M L C U F P Y W B G J K V Q X Z With the alphabet thus arranged, the greater num ber of the letters in all words will be obtained by pointing only to three crosses in succession. The plan here described was tried once at Messrs. Mar shalls, the professional mediums, who looked on for some minutes in a manifest state of perplexity at the celerity with which the messages were obtained, for the spirits understood the plan at once, and talked away for several minutes before the mediums say clearly the nature of the new system of signalling. Much time that might be saved, is wasted in other ways in Spiritualism. The primary measure of the value of anything, whether in the heavens above of upon the earth beneath, is its use, beauty being a secondary consideration—in fact, there is a use in beauty. When spirits in the body waste years in use less pursuits—such, for instance, as in elaborately carv ing a piece of ivory, it is only right that their wiser brethren should point out the folly of such reckless waste of time. So, likewise, when spirits out of the body spend much time, as very many of them do, both in England and America, in making mediums draw fan tastical designs, which are of no use when finished, it is only common sense to break off such mediumship, after giving the spirits say two or three weeks trial, to see whether the work actually results in something useful or instructive. Raps and tilts are always useful messages be wise or foolish, because the movements and sounds are evidence to non-Spiritualist of some very remarkable power being at work, but un meaning drawings executed through the hand of a medium have not even this to recommend them. These remarks are not intended to apply to the works of art which are sometimes executed in this way, and are ornamental enough to deserve framing and suspension in the drawing-room, because then some good is done by work. Neither are the remarks intended to apply to direct drawings by spirits, without the intervention of human hands, for the production of such designs is splendid evidence of an independent intelligence and power at the root of the manifestations. Spirits who spend much time in the useless though harmless way herein described, should be taught by the medium to act more wisely, just as undeveloped spirits in the body ought to be taught better under the same circumstances. We regret to see from a notice in Daybreak, that it is possible that it will be discontinued very shortly. There can not be too many workers in the field of the literature of Spi ritualism, since every journal meets the wants of certain readers. The December number of Daybreak contains some very interesting information about spirit life, furnished by Mrs. De Morgan.