Notice

The Spiritist Review will begin on the coming January 1 its twelfth year. To the subscribers who do not wish to suffer delay, we beg that they renew their subscription before December 31. As usual, the January number will be sent to all old subscribers; the following numbers will be so only as the renewals are made. We proposed to publish with the last number of this year, a general alphabetical index of all the subjects treated, whether in the Review, or in our other works, in such a way as to facilitate research. But this work, much more considerable than we supposed, in order to be complete, could not be finished in time. We will publish it with one of our next numbers, and it will be sent to all subscribers. We will also publish shortly a catalogue of all the works that may interest the Doctrine: those that were published in view of Spiritism and those that, outside of it and at different epochs, have an affinity of principles with the new beliefs. It will be a guide for the formation of Spiritist libraries. When it appears, the indication of the works will be followed by a short appraisal, to make known their spirit, and a notice will be made in the number of the Review in which it is to be published. Allan Kardec.

Paris. – Typ. de Rouge frères, Dunon et Fresné, rue du Four-Saint-Germain, 43.

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[The Codifier was not able to fulfill his promise to publish a “general alphabetical index of all the subjects treated” because some months later, Mr. Hippolyte Léon Denizard Rivail — Allan Kardec — passed away, in Paris, in the passage Saint-Anne, 59, on March 31, 1869, at 64 years of age, succumbing after the rupture of an aneurysm. In the Subject index of the Kardecian Testament, and in the Alphabetical index of the 1st edition of the Spirits’ Book, it is already possible to facilitate somewhat the research in the Kardecian works; but digital books have an enormous potential for evolution; in the future, not very distant, search engines supplied by neural networks in Portuguese with billions of words indexed, just as is already being developed for the English language, will facilitate greatly, the access to the information of the Bible of the Way. Konrad Jacques.]