LETTERS AND TRACTS ON SPIRITUALISM. BY JUDGE EDMONDS. BIBLIO ALSO TWO INSPIRATIONAL ORATIONS BY CORA L. PAPPAN; AND PARTICULARS RESPECTING THE PERSONAL CAREER EDITED BY J. BURNS, LONDON: J. BURNS, PROGRESSIVE LIBRARY AND SPIRITUAL 265. k. 185. FOR several years it was our privilege to enjoy an intimate correspondence with Judge Edmonds, and about twelve months ago we mentioned to him in a letter that a testimonial of photographs, volumes, an address, &c., was being got up for him in London; and we suggested that a testimonial edition of his celebrated works on Spiritualism, which were then and are still out of print, would be gladly received by English Spiritualists. The Judge in reply wrote: "You speak of a testimonial which is being got up for me. This is the first time I have heard of it, and allow me to say that your publishing that work (alluding to his various volumes on Spiritualism) so that it could be offered cheaply to the world would be to me the most acceptable memorial that could be devised." He then went on to say that he had a new edition of his writings in preparation, and, indeed, 200 pages thereof stereotyped, but the outlay was so great that he had to suspend the work. His intention was to bring out three volumes similar to the present work, and consisting of a choice selection from the piles of MS. which for upwards of twenty years he had accumulated on the subject of Spiritualism. It would not be a mere reprint of the two volumes which had been for so many years before the public, but an entirely new and, as the author thought, a much more important work. At the same time, he offered us the manuscript to go on with and complete the work, and we announced the same as a "Testimonial Edition of the Works of Judge Edmonds." The announcement was received with much favour, such gentlemen as Mr. S. C. Hall at once subscribing for as many as five copies, making in all twenty volumes. In the meantime the Judge sent on per steamer the stereoplates of the "Tracts and Letters," from which we have printed the present volume. It was our intention to issue it first as one of the series of the "Testimonial Edition," and allow the others to follow. The author also thought of having an edition printed by us for his own use, and while we were in correspondence with him over the details of cost, &c., he passed "Testimonial away; and now that which was intended for a |