THE editor of the New York Sun thinks that Spiritualism is a fraud, and has recently published some of his reasons for thinking so. Nevertheless he says:— “That it is a fraud has been the usual verdict of science from the beginning, and yet Spiritualism has gained some of its firmest converts among scientific men who entered upon its investigation with a profound skepticism. One of the latest of these, we are told, is a distinguished professor in a New England college, and the list includes men of scientific renown in England, in Germany, and in other countries of Europe. There was no more acute intellect at the bar of New York than the late Judge Edmunds, but he was ready to sacrifice even his reputation for sanity in order to preach Spiritualism. The same may be said of Luther R. Marsh, who accepted the paintings of Mrs. Diss Debar as the work of the disembodied spirits of Rubens, Titian, and Raphael, wretched as they were in every artistic sense. The handsome reward offered in the Sun by a physician for a scientific test of the authenticity of the so-called spiritual manifestations, has only stirred up Henry Kiddle to pity for him as lacking in the inner enlightenment necessary to perceive the supernatural character of the phenomena. “The number of devout believers like Mr. Kiddle, and of those who are almost convinced, now reaches millions in the world. After Spiritualism was first carried to England by Mrs. Hayden from Boston, in 1852, it spread all over Europe, and when Home appeared in London, coming also from this country, it received a new impulse, and not so much among the ignorant and the humble as among the educated and exalted. The medium, Dr. Slade, has also secured many converts, and the Spiritualists now publish about one hundred journals, forty of which are in Spanish and printed in Spain and South America. In French and German they have fifteen or twenty. There are twenty-six in this country, and even in Australia there are four. The English Spiritualistic organs advertise Sunday meetings in sixty towns and eighty rooms. “The tendency to refer material results to supernatural causes seems to increase rather than decrease under the influence of the scientific criticism which is strengthening agnosticism in the other direction. On one side we have no belief, and on the other a belief in spiritual agencies which equals, if it does not exceed, such faith during any past period of modern history. Men and especially women of intelligence and culture are unquestioning in their reliance in the faith cure and the prayer cure, and the movement to create the anomaly of a spiritual science receives ardent support from thousands of people who take much pride in their reasoning faculties. Theosophy, too, despite the exposure of Mme. Blavatsky's impudent impostures, is still flourishing, and the progress of Buddhism in this country, and especially in Boston, is due to the fascination which the occult and the mysterious have for so many minds.” And again, after referring to the findings of the Seybert commission, and other scientists, the Sun says:— “But even scientific men trained to the closest observation of facts, are among the most deceived, and men who have been devoted to the sifting of evidence during a life-time with minds of extraordinary natural and acquired acuteness, are surrendering to the power of Spiritualism.” And thus it appears that notwithstanding all the so-called exposures, Spiritualism, that great,