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 Fechner's ALitfIe Hook of Life After Deathn-Ridgeway CuIIum's 'The Hound from the Norths-"New cynics
 CaIendars-sJasOn's auest"-'Dor- otly Dainty at sehooI'-''The Making of sreenle.-aA Lass of Dorehester'-
 other Books.
 Messrs. Little. Brown & O., of Bos- ton, have issued an English translation by Mary c. wadsworth of Fechner's Little Book of Life After Death, to- gether with an admirable introduction by Professor William James wherein he deals with the author and his work generally, and in particular with the opinions expressed in this treatise. Few American readers have ever heard of the author of this volume, who has long been dead, but Professor James regards him as one of the ablest schol- ars and writers of his generation. In psychology" he says, it is a common place to glorify him as the first user of experimental methods, and the flrst aimer of exactitude in facts; in aes- s.thetics he may lay claim to be the ear Hest systematically empirical student; in metaphysics he is not only the au- thor of an independently reasoned eth ical system, but of a theological theory worked out in great detail; he was, in fact, philosopher in the great sense of the term
 Of Fechner's genius and influence Professor James ir. his enthusiastic in- troduction has this to say: Imagine a Herbert Spencer who to the unity of his system, and it's unceasing touch with facts, should have added a posi- lively religious philosophy instead of Spencer,s dry agnosticism; who should have mingled hunor and lightness (even though it were Germanic light ness) with heavier ratiocinations; who should have been no less encyclopaedia and far more subtle; who should have shown . personal life as simple and as consecrated to the one pursuit of truth imagine this, I say, if you can, and you may form some idea of what the name of Fechner is more and more coming to stand for, and of the esteem in which it Is more and more held by the youth of his native Germany"
 The authors theory is that man lives upon the earth not once, but three times. The first stage of life is a con- tinuous sleep; the second is an alter nation between sleeping and waking; the third is an eternal waking. In the first stage man lives alone in dark ness; In the second he lives with com panions, near and among others, but detached and in a light which pictures for him the exterior; in the third his life is merged with that of other souls in the higher life of the Supreme Spirit, and he discerns the reality of ultimate things.
 In the first stage the body is devel- oped from the germ and evolves it's equipment for the second in the second the spirit unfolds from it's seed bud and realizes its powers for the third, in the third isss developed the divine spark which lies in every human soul, and which already here, through perception, faith feeling, the intuition of Genius, demonstrates the world beyond man to the soul in the third stage as clear as day, though to us obscure. The passing from the first to the second stage is called birth; the transition from the second to the third is called death, which process is but the higher evolution of the life we now live, hold ing the same revolutionary relation fo this that the adult life holds to child hood and infancy.
 The book first saw the light just sev- enty years ago, and has passed through many editions iii Germany. The pres ent is the first In English.
 In the argument in support of his theory the author has chosen such as speak directly and simply to thinkers, and are drawn from common experi- ence. From his theory is deduced a high standard for right living. One dollar. For sale by all booksellers.
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