New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1863-05-23


The work is profussly illustrated by pictorial
sketches mostly from drawings iaAea on tbs spo:
by skilllul ARTISTS.
INclDErTs ~ Wy LIE BY D. n. HorF. wlh a.
Iutio..ca0a By JsSss EDzoHpa Hao- ~. ia Carrie
tgn.
According 70 the statement made by tue author OF
Ills volume concerning himself, he appears 10 have
fo,s.rs.d remarkable pos ers Of eaiTyoyence from
very early age HIS ex penenee WIS in some re-
,roets similar to ha, Of the ssersss Of Provsrs' and
other exceptional iadividaaG.iss whose hiytory
forms wonderful eh.pter in the record of " the
night shade Of nA,urs, although modified both by
hia peculiar Temperament. aud e:tornal condition.
Nr. Homo was born in Edinburgh In tho year 1898,
aud a. a child ovineei such = delicate and nervous
organization. that il was Thought he could not liyU
70 grow up. The singular phenomena, with which
he has become To 20 great a degree identified, com
menccd before biz remembrance; and 1t was a ira
d,ion in bis family that his cradle was frequently
rocked in bis infancy as II some guardian spirit ware
cad 1 HIM 10 his sluIbers II is also related by
aunt. by whom ho was adopted. and brought 10 this
country Ut tic age Of nine thai when hs ali N,
four years old he bad vision OF the circumstance.
corrected with ;he death Of li;tlo cousin IN dis
iant place, which proved 10 be entirely correct The
first vision which he distinctly remembers occurred
when be was thirteen years Of age IL mother Is
.s.d to have been seer throughout her life. Size
had what j, Known IN Scltaud IS she second sight,
and in ngny instances pEolessed % re things u.
dat. nee. " hich were eftVrward found 70 have os-
eufrtd As she described lheul. She slso foro'od
mas,s future events, among otLeB Der own death.
The author o. this volume seems TO have fniy car
ed ont bio maternal inheritance The book Is niied
with descriptions OF suhngo Visions, Manifestations
of Igelsfnatural power, and apparently miraculous
occurrences, which ra!re strong frnEumriiunugains
their oreditilJy except with those who 10 not make
their own experience the staniard Il possibiliy ana
who bsliryr thai tlaro are moro things Ia bsavcb
and earih tnan dreamed OF in shoir philosophy.
After the development Of his marvellous powers, Nc
Homo wont 10 Europe. WHORE ho became the object
OF extraordinary attention. sueJ-olnd frequent
tctis by intelligent and critic, inquirers, many 81
whom cailcd his caiua decidedly IN question, was
iutro5uced into the highest circles OK European 40
eis,y, where he was something more THAI a" nine
days wonder" and finally married into noblo Rus
sian family. Tho contributions 10 the volume by
%ary Hewitt. Mrs. :, c. Hall, and Or. John
James Garth Wilkinson. 10 well 40 the preface by
Judge E1monds, cannot fail 10 be read with interest,
although they express strong belief net oAly Ia the
p!r enaons Of Mr.. lone but in 10 reality Of the
phenomena purpoFt.ng TO DO sPrmaai manifestations
whch have puzzled 80 many brains within the Lass
ton years both in America and Ennpr The hook
smoro crcli,ablo 10 the writer, in literary point
of view. than meet productions on the subject,
and "ay possibly 10 finished by many outsiders
without uausrg.
THE RESULTS or SLAVERY. BY ArnrsriS Occurs
Trausllird by MARr H. B0oTu. i2mo Pr. Ala NAN.
er, Htsa. & 20.
The CHIEF interest Of the present volume In derived
from tho fact that it exhibits the views ofan enhghi
eued European publicst On the subject of American
Slavery, Giscursns il IN the hight oi curIvnt events
and pur.uing thu history almost down 10 Cotompo