Extract from the English newspapers.

One of our correspondents in London transmits to us the following news:

“The English newspaper The Builder (O Construtor), organ of the architects, much esteemed for its practical character and the rectitude of its judgments, has dealt casually, several times in succession, with questions relative to Spiritism. In these articles it deals with the manifestations of the present time, the author making an appraisal of his point of view.

“Spiritism was also broached in some of the latest news of the Anthropological Review of London; there it is declared that the fact of the ostensible intervention of Spirits, in certain phenomena, is too well proven to be cast in doubt. There the corporeal envelope of man is spoken of as a coarse garment appropriate to his present state, which is considered as the lowest rung of the human kingdom; this kingdom, although the crowning of the animality of the planet, is nothing but a sketch of the glorious body, light, purified, and luminous, that the soul must put on in the future, as the human race develops and perfects itself. “It is not yet, adds our correspondent, the homogeneous and coherent doctrine of the French Spiritist school, but it approaches it very much, and it seemed to me interesting as an indication of the movement of ideas in the Spiritist sense on this side of the strait. But they lack direction; one floats at random in this new world that opens before Humanity, and it is not to be wondered at that one loses oneself in it for lack of a guide. It is not to be doubted that, if the works of the Doctrine were translated into English, they would gather numerous partisans, fixing the still uncertain ideas.” A. Blackwell. n [1] Translator's note: This refers to Anna Blackwell, first translator into English of The Spirits' Book and of The Mediums' Book, by Allan Kardec.