Diverse poems from the invisible world

This collection, which in the last issue we announced as being in the press [see The dogmas of the Church of Christ explained by Spiritism], will appear in the first fortnight of January. Our readers were able to judge the genre and the value of the poems obtained by Mr. Vavasseur as a medium—whether in waking state or in spontaneous somnambulism—by the fragments we published. We shall, then, limit ourselves to saying that to the merit of the versification they join that of reflecting, under the graceful poetic form, the consoling truths of the doctrine, and that, on this account, they will have a place of honor in every Spiritist library. We deem it well to add to them an introduction, or rather, an instruction on mediumistic poetry in general, intended to answer certain objections of criticism regarding this genre of productions. Modifications introduced in the printing will allow them to be set at the price of 1 fr.; by post, 1 fr. 15 c.

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[See also:

L’Echo poétique d’outre-tombe, poésies médianimiques - Google books, obtenues par M. Vavasseur, précédées d’une étude sur la poésie médianimique, par Allan Kardec. — 1 vol. in-12, 1 fr.; franco, 1 fr.

c. Paris, Librarie spirite.]