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vol. title: Vol Four of The Theosophical Society of The Arya Samaj of Arya-wart vol. period: Sept 1878 – Sept 1879 pages in vol.: 350 |
A New Era
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Eno’s Fruit Salt.—A Gentleman writes:—“Since I have used ENO’S FRUIT SALT night and morning, my headaches, &c., have left me, and this after suffering for above twenty years. You should make this fact well known.”
Eno’s Fruit Salt.—A Lady writes:—“Everything, medicine or food, ceased to act properly for at least three months before I commenced taking it; the little food I could take generally punished me or returned. My life was one of great suffering, so that I must have succumbed before long.”
in the World Ought to Contain—A Bottle of
Eno’s Fruit Salt,
as a
General Laxative and Tonic
in the Various Forms of Indigestion.
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In Pimples and Blotches on the Face, Sallowness of the Skin, and Depression of Spirits, it is most useful, for not the least of its recommendations is its resemblance to fruit in the natural way in which it relieves the system of effete or poisonous matter, which, if retained, poisons the blood; and its advantages over fruit is that it can be always at hand when required. Its preparation has been truly styled one of the triumphs of modern chemistry. In hot or foreign climates it is invaluable. It allays nervous excitement, and restores the nervous system to its proper condition (by natural means). In the Nursery it is beyond praise.
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Eno’s Fruit Salt (one of Nature’s own products) keeps the blood pure, and is thus of itself one of the most valuable means of keeping the blood free from fevers and blood poisons, liver complaints, &c., ever discovered. As a means of preserving and restoring health, it is unequalled; and it is, moreover, a pleasant, refreshing and invigorating beverage. After a patient and careful observation of its effects when used, I have no hesitation in stating that if its great value in keeping the body healthy were universally known, not a household in the land would be without it, nor a single travelling trunk or portmanteau but would contain it.—J. C. Eno.
Eno’s Fruit Salt.—“I am very much pleased with your FRUIT SALT. I have fully proved its great efficacy by its having entirely cured me of indigestion.”—T. Wood, Jun., Tudor-road, Canterbury.
Worthy of Notice—Palpitation of the Heart, caused by Liver Derangement and Indigestion, frequently called (or mistaken for) Heart Disease:—“On April 14 I purchased a bottle of your FRUIT SALT, not feeling very well at the time, and it had an effect that I never anticipated when I bought it. I had suffered more or less, since the year 1841, from palpitation of the heart, but very badly during the last few years. The least thing would produce it during the day, and at night my sleep was very much disturbed. Strange to say, after the first dose of FRUIT SALT, the dangerous, annoying, and truly disagreeable symptoms of palpitation suddenly ceased, and have not since returned. Out of gratitude for the benefit which I have received, I have recommended it to all my friends, both in London and Yarmouth. At the same time, I feel it a duty to state the above facts, of which you can make whatever use you please.—I am, dear sir, yours respectfully, “W. B. Beckett.”
Aug. 30, 1877.—10, York-square, Commercial-road, London, E.
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The Lazy Lays and Prose Imaginings
Price Seven Shillings and Sixpence, Crown 8vo, richly gilt,
Writings, Grave and Gay.
The gilt device on the cover designed by Florence Claxton and the
1. The Lay of the Lazy Author.—2. The Song of the Newspaper Editor.—3. The Song of the Pawnbroker.—4. The Castle.—5. The Lay of the Fat Man.—6. The Poetry of Science.—7. How Hadji Al Shacabac was Photographed. (A letter from Hadji Al Shacabac, a gentleman who visited London on business connected with a Turkish Loan, to Ali Mustapha Ben Buckram, Chief of the College of Howling Dervishes at Constantinople.)—8. The Lay of the Broad-Brimmed Hat.—9. St. Bride’s Bay.—10. The Lay of the Market Gardener.—11. “Fast Falls the Eventide.”—12. Our Raven.—13. Materialistic Religion.—13. The Lay of the Photographer.—14. How to Double the Utility of the Printing Press.—15. The Song of the Mother-in-Law.—16. Wirbel-bewegung.—17. “Poor Old Joe!”—18. The Human Hive.—19. The Lay of the Mace-Bearers.—20. A Love Song.—21. A Vision.—22. “Under the Limes.”—23. The Angel of Silence.
24. The Public Analyst.—25. General Grant’s Reception at Folkestone.—26. The Rifle Corps.—27. Tony’s Lament.—28. The July Bug.—29. The Converted Carman.
The Morning Post, which strongly recommends the book in a review nearly a column long, says:—“Comic literature which honestly deserves the epithet seems to be rapidly becoming a thing of the past; consequently any writer who, like Mr. Harrison, exhibits a genuine vein of humour, deserves the praise of all who are not too stupid to enjoy an innocent laugh. Not that his muse restricts herself only to such lighter utterances; on the contrary, some of his poems touch on the deepest and most sacred feelings of our common humanity. . . . The unfortunate Hadji’s narrative of his adventures amongst the magicians of Whitechapel is quite one of the funniest things that has been published for years. . . . The book contains quite enough to ensure it a welcome from which its tasteful appearance will not detract.” The Morning Post says of The Wobblejaw Ballads—“No one can help laughing at them,” and it says that the rhymes are pitched in “something like the same key” as The Bon Gaultier Ballads or The Biglow Papers, “with an appreciably successful result.”
“All are of marked ability. . . . Occasionally we find verse of great beauty, showing that the author possesses the pure poetic gift.”
“Those who can appreciate genuine, unforced humour should not fail to read The Lazy Lays and Prose Imaginings. Written, printed, published and reviewed by William H. Harrison (38, Great Russell-street). Both the verses and the short essays are really funny, and in some of the latter there is a vein of genial satire which adds piquancy to the fun. The Lay of the Newspaper Editor is capital, if rather severe, and so is The Lay of the Macebearers; but one of the most laughable bits is the Turk’s account of how he went to be photographed.”
“A volume of remarkably good verse. . . . Some of the metrical legends remind us of the wild chants that used to be sung at the meetings of the Cannibal Club, some ten or fifteen years ago. Mr. Harrison, however, knows where to plant his fun, and an accurate scientific mind like his can make jokes with success. . . . To all who wish to read a pleasant volume magnificently got up as a gift-book, we commend The Lazy Lays.”
“An odd but most entertaining assortment of quaint and humorous fancies, some in verse and others in prose, and all written with a fluent and not ungraceful pen. The vein of humour which permeates them is genuine, rich, and original, and not at all ill-natured.”
“Scientific men and matters are in one or two cases alluded to, and the imprint bears that the work is published ‘A.D. 1877 (popular chronology); A.M. 5877 (Torquemada); A.M. 50,800,077 (Huxley).’ We believe that our readers may derive a little amusement from a perusal of the volume.”
“The Lazy Lays include many admirable pieces, some of which are in verse and others in prose, some scientific, others social, but all of them excellent. . . . The Lazy Lays will make excellent and amusing reading for an occasional spare half-hour. . . . They contain nothing unrefined or in bad taste.”
“How Hadji Al Shacabac, an amiable Turk, was photographed, is well done. . . . Bound in a cover of somewhat powerful design.”
“Mr. W. H. Harrison, a gentleman whose name is familiar in connection with photographic and other scientific literature, has considerable facility of versification, and deals, in pleasant and humorous mood, with many scientific follies which are better laughed down than gravely disputed.”
“In Mr. W. H. Harrison’s Lazy Lays and Prose Imaginings there is a good deal of broad humour and satiric power, with a due foundation of solid sense.”
“Good poetical diction is displayed. Mr. Harrison has produced a most welcome book. . . . ‘How Hadji al Shacabac was Photographed,’ will be sure to make every reader roar with laughter.”
“With such a free and easy author it is naturally to be expected that his subjects should bear some trace of this peculiar idiosyncrasy, and indeed they are as free and easy as himself. . . . The poems are all characterised by smoothness and rhythmical swing. . . . The work is very elaborately bound in cloth and gilt. . . . A gorgeous design upon the cover. . . . If our readers wish to encourage laziness they have a most deserving object in a very clever and versatile member of the order.”
“In his handsomely bound and griffin-guarded Lazy Lays, Mr. William H. Harrison provides a gift-book elegant in its appearance and entertaining in its contents. . . . The author is imbued with the true spirit of humour, and amuses all while offending none.”
“A volume from the versatile pen of Mr. W. H. Harrison, a well-known contributor to the London and provincial press, and editor of The Spiritualist. . . . Many of the humorous poems remind us of the Ingoldsby Legends. The Lay of the Photographer, The Lay of the Macebearers, and some of The Wobblejaw Ballads would not have been unworthy of Barham himself. Some of the shorter poems are exquisite, and there pervade the whole a religious sentiment and poetic feeling which will make them acceptable to most readers.”
“The finest thing in the book is ‘How Hadji Al Shacabac was Photographed.’ It is an admirable addition to our not too extensive comic literature. The story is one of which extracts would not give an adequate idea; it is intensely humorous. . . . Those who wish to obtain a handsome gift-book of an amusing nature, will find what they want in The Lazy Lays.”
“A curious collection of verses and prose essays of unequal merit. . . . The serious and sentimental verses belong to the type of Mrs. Hemans’s or L. E. L.’s productions.”
It is “after the manner of Barham, Hood, Mark Twain, or any of those merry souls who do quite as much good in their day and generation as the authors of the most serious works. The Lays are always original, sometimes serious, generally comic, but never vulgar.”
“It is in itself a work of itself—original, and a cast of its author’s mind. It is a work of great power and beauty; full of lively imaginings and bold outspoken thoughts, abounding in tenderness and pathos; sparkling with wit and humour; and one that may be read many times over. . . . The get-up of the book is very handsome.”
“A number of clever sketches and poems, among the latter being a series of papers entitled The Wobblejaw Ballads, which appeared in the columns of this paper a short time ago, and which created such a furore at the time.” [N.B. An irate member of the Town Council officially called the attention of the Mayor and Corporation of Folkestone to the burlesques in the “Wobblejaw Ballads,” but the members assembled laughed at the matter, and proceeded to the next business. The Mayor said that he did not mind them.] . . . “It contains some very choice poems and prose essays, is bound in cloth richly gilt, and has an original design of no ordinary merit on the cover.”
W. H. Harrison, 38, Great Russell-street, London, W.C.
Mesmerism and its Phenomena, or Animal Magnetism
Chemistry at Edinburgh University,
the Duke of Argyll.
The second and slightly revised and abridged edition, for its quality and size the cheapest large work ever published in this country in connection with Spiritualism.
Just published, price 5s., or 5s. 6d. post free; or five copies post free for 21s. Copies may also be had bound in half calf, with marbled edges, price 8s. 6d. per volume, post free.
Chapter I:—First Effects Produced by Mesmerism—Sensations—Process for Causing Mesmeric Sleep—The Sleep or Mesmeric State—It Occurs Spontaneously in Sleep-Walkers—Phenomena of the Sleep—Divided Consciousness—Senses Affected—Insensibility to Pain.
Chapter II:—Control Exercised by the Operator over the Subject in Various Ways—Striking Expression of Feelings in the Look and Gesture—Effect of Music—Truthfulness of the Sleeper—Various Degrees of Susceptibility—Sleep Caused by Silent Will; and at a Distance—Attraction Towards the Operator—Effect in the Waking State of Commands Given in the Sleep.
Chapter III:—Sympathy—Community of Sensations; of Emotions—Danger of Rash Experiments—Public Exhibitions of Doubtful Advantage—Sympathy with the Bystanders—Thought-Reading—Sources of Error—Medical Intuition—Sympathetic Warnings—Sympathies and Antipathies—Existence of a Peculiar Force or Influence.
Chapter IV:—Direct Clairvoyance or Lucid Vision, without the Eyes—Vision of Near Objects: through Opaque Bodies: at a Distance—Sympathy and Clairvoyance in Regard to Absent Persons—Retrovision—Introvision.
Chapter V:—Lucid Prevision—Duration of Sleep, etc., Predicted—Prediction of Changes in the Health or State of the Seer—Prediction of Accidents, and of Events Affecting Others—Spontaneous Clairvoyance—Striking Case of it—Spontaneous Retrovision and Prevision—Peculiarities of Speech and of Consciousness in Mesmerised Persons—Transference of Senses and of Pain.
Chapter VI:—Mesmerism, Electro-Biology, Electro-Psychology and Hypnotism, essentially the same—Phenomena of Suggestions in the Conscious or Waking State—Dr. Darling’s Method and its Effects—Mr. Lewis’s Method and its Results—The Impressible State—Control Exercised by the Operator—Gazing—Mr. Braid’s Hypnotism—The Author’s Experience—Importance of Perseverance—The Subject must be Studied.
Chapter VII:—Trance, Natural and Accidental; Mesmeric—Trance Produced at Will by the Subjects—Col. Townsend—Fakeers—Extasis—Extatics not all Imposters—Luminous Emanations—Extasis often Predicted—M. Cahaguet’s Extatics—Visions of the Spiritual World.
Chapter VIII:—Phreno-Mesmerism—Progress of Phrenology—Effects of Touching the Head in the Sleep—Variety in the Phenomena—Suggestion—Sympathy—There are Cases in which these Act, and others in which they do not Act—Phenomena Described—The Lower Animals Susceptible of Mesmerism—Fascination Among Animals—Instinct—Sympathy of Animals—Snail Telegraph Founded on It.
Chapter IX:—Action of Magnets, Crystals, etc., on the Human Frame—Researches of Reichenbach—His Odyle is Identical with the Mesmeric Fluid of Mesmer, or with the Influence which Causes the Mesmeric Phenomena—Odylic or Mesmeric Light—Aurora Borealis Artificially Produced—Mesmerised Water—Useful Applications of Mesmerism—Physiological, Therapeutical, etc.—Treatment of Insanity, Magic, Divination, Witchcraft, etc., explained by Mesmerism, and Traced to Natural Causes—Apparitions—Second Sight is Waking Clairvoyance—Predictions of Various Kinds.
Chapter X:—An Explanation of the Phenomena Attempted or Suggested—A Force (Odyle) Universally Diffused, Certainly Exists, and is Probably the Medium of Sympathy and Lucid Vision—Its Characters—Difficulties of the Subject—Effects of Odyle—Somnambulism—Suggestion, Sympathy—Thought-Reading—Lucid Vision—Odylic Emanations—Odylic Traces followed up by Lucid Subjects—Magic and Witchcraft—The Magic Crystal, and Mirror, etc., Induce Waking Clairvoyance—Universal Sympathy—Lucid Perception of the Future.
Chapter XI:—Interest Felt in Mesmerism by Men of Science—Due Limits of Scientific Caution—Practical Hints—Conditions of Success in Experiments—Cause of Failure—Mesmerism a Serious Thing—Cautions to the Student—Opposition to be Expected.
Chapter XII:—Phenomena Observed in the Conscious or Waking State—Effects of Suggestion on Persons in an Impressible State—Mr. Lewis’s Experiments With and Without Suggestion—Cases—Dr. Darling’s Experiments—Cases—Conscious or Waking Clairvoyance, Produced by Passes, or by Concentration—Major Buckley’s Method—Cases—The Magic Crystal Induces Waking Lucidity, when Gazed at—Cases—Magic Mirror—Mesmerised Water—Egyptian Magic.
Chapter XIII:—Production of the Mesmeric Sleep—Cases—Eight out of Nine Persons Recently Tried by the Author Thrown into Mesmeric Sleep—Sleep Produced without the Knowledge of the Subject—Suggestion in the Sleep—Phreno-Mesmerism in the Sleep—Sympathetic Clairvoyance in the Sleep—Cases—Perception of Time—Cases; Sir J. Franklin; Major Buckley’s Case of Retrovision.
Chapter XIV:—Direct Clairvoyance—Cases—Travelling Clairvoyance—Cases—Singular Visions of Mr. D.—Letters of Two Clergymen, with Cases—Clairvoyance of Alexis—Other Cases.
Chapter XV:—Trance—Extasis—Cases—Spontaneous Mesmeric Phenomena—Apparitions—Predictions.
Chapter XVI:—Curative Agency of Mesmerism—Concluding Remarks, and Summary.
Editor's notes
- ↑ A New Era by unknown author, Spiritualist, The, Vol. 12, No. 2, Jan. 11, 1878
- ↑ The Lazy Lays and Prose Imaginings by Harrison, William H., Spiritualist, The, Vol. 12, No. 2, Jan. 11, 1878
- ↑ Mesmerism and its Phenomena, or Animal Magnetism by Gregory, William, Spiritualist, The, Vol. 12, No. 2, Jan. 11, 1878