The herald., 1894-03-11
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thing che undertook, a mastery of de-
tails, and a will power that bent all op'
position, while her earnest enthusiasn
and neVer-failing pluck won for her the
admiration of the public. Here 10 q
book whose lessons, If read by the pub
lie, will prove blessing to many who
Ers struggling to win for themselves G
position in the world. and par
ticularly helpful to young women
just starting ON the sea Of life tc
earn their own way. 1t should be in
every household in Los Angeles that
contains q single member who admired
and respected Miss Abbott. / can re-
member how tbs public struggled to
secure seats for every performances and
how they enjoyed their evenings enter
tainmsnt. They will live those hours oI
enjoyment over again in reading this
tribute to "honeat little Emma" The
volume can be obtained in different
bindings at exceedingly cheap prices,
either from Mr.. Abbott at the Argyle
house. or at the Antiquarian Book store,
III West First street.
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Carlyle PetersileR, the well known
musician, author and spiritual teacher,
is now introducing to the Los Angeles
! public his wonderful book, The Dis
covered Country, an original and start
| ling volume. This book is suggestive of
combination of the Swedenborgian
| heaven, the paradise of the Moham-
medsn houris, the happy hunting
ground OF the Indian, and the spirit
abode believed in by some of the native
races of the Pacific coast, as so graphic
ally described by Hubert Howe Ban
croft; still it is yet an original concep-
ton, and is infinitely above all the be-
liefs referred to save, perhaps, that
of SwedenbOrg, in its spirit
ual beauty. The idea that there
exists for every spirit OF man
IAN eternal counterpArt-or other
hail." and that these halves will be
united in marriage in the ''discoversd
country" regardless OF all former earth
ly ties, and that this unit forms one
perfect angel-with two iorms-whose
eternal destiny is progress in wisdom,
love and truth and unslloyed hsppi-
ness this idea will strike poor NOR
tails in different ways. Many husbands
and wives will look forward to it as
blessed release from and recompense
for their earthly infelicity. while others
will regard it with jealous and appre-
hensive solicituds.
This volume destroys all the horror
which usually surrounds death. causing
US to shrink with fear ami dread from
the uncertainty of what lies beyond,
and, investing it with the brightness
and poetry OF a dawning morn, carries
the released spirit up to the realm OF
eternal joys, from whence he revisits
the earth almost Immediately, in order
fO Nj xuIfh tha dioot4cf Of
cpated soul, the gross and cumber-
some material form, which, like the
CALLING letters of a slave, once chained
him down to earth.
The author explains in demons strating
that the soul is in reality two parts,
male and female; that in order to be
born into earth life the souls are sepa-
rated, and perhaps parted during the
period OF time spent by them in the ma
terial world, to be united again, each to
his other self or counterpart, when they
reach the spirit land and become from
thence forth one glorious, complete soul.
Until the divided portions of soul are
united, neither lie able to progress in
wisdom or perform the noble work re-
quired of each angel before enjoying the
delight of the higher heavens. 1t is a
remarkable book, judged by ordinary
standards; but whatever individual
opinion might find to approve or con
denim, the fact remains that the writer
has expressed herein the profoundest
beliefs OF his own soul, and often in go
exquisitely beautiful form that no
thinker can fail to perceive and be in
spired by the eternal verities which they
envelop. Ii a person desires truth he
will find it, in whatever gsrb it appears !;
and, though hosts of people might
think that truth should wear different
dress than The Discovered Country
gives it, nevertheless volumes of glori-
GUS truth are there, and beautifully
patent to the mind ready to receive
them. 1t matters not what one's idea
of heaven may be, this book teaches
some spiritual lessons that this worlds
dtnizens can profit by and realize, to
their own happiness. II anything can
be more beautiful than the writer's the
ory OF love and wisdom as the founda-
tion of all things, with truth as its out
come, we should like to know it. 1t is
grand in ininlty, glorious in its beauty
and satisfying in its possibilities. The
field which the writer has entered is a
vast one-an infinite one; but the
ground which he has covered reveals an
immense depth of thought, directness
and purity of purpose, an easy convers-
ance with the outcomes of scientific re-
search, keen and far-reaching deduc-
tions, strong perception and realiza-
tion of the beauty OF harmony and the
harmony OF beauty, with all that that
means to the musicAlly attuned soul.
The Discovered Country is en-
phatically a Psychological work
such, indeed, ss only inspira-
tion and proiund research could have
dictated, and 10 80 remarkable as to be
in the nature Of q spiritual revelation.
Mr.. Petersilea is authority for the fact
that when writing. power comes to him
and he is entirely unconscious of what
is being, at the time, written by his
hand automatically. His firm belief is
that, I'm tbe agee to come, love, wisdom
and goodness ia heaven-will
prevail; while hate, barbarian and
cruelty-wbich is hell-shall pass
away" This wonderful book, so inter
estiug. 30 entertaining, so full of thought
and research, can be had from Mr.
Petersilea, at mis- studio, or at the Anti
quarisn book store, III West First
street.
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Robert Bonner's Sons have Just issued
in their choice series German detective
novel from the German of Georoe