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{{Style P-No indent|joinder to an intemperate and petulant notice of his review by the writers of the book. To suggest that a reviewer, because he objects to some published arguments, “in his private and individual character has an affinity for women of an inferior type” is (as he says) unkind, and far more. It is impertinent in every sense of the word.——Another author, Mr. Oxley, having objected to his reviewer, that writer makes an interminable rejoinder, which is incomplete. Surely this antiphonal discord of Reviewer and reviewed is deplorable, and to be avoided.}}

 

 

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  | source details = Vol. V, December 1882; Monthly Summary of Contemporary Spiritual Opinion

  | publication date = 1882-12

{{Style P-Title|“LIGHT” (LONDON).}}

The conduct of public circles occupies a large share of attention in all journals this month. It is interesting to note the various attitudes taken up by writers and editors. In entire agreement with the opinion of the ''Review'' is the general attitude of ''Light''. The more the subject is discussed, the more plain does it become that there is nothing more to be said that is worth the saying. The enthusiasts blindly ignore plain facts, and will not face them, though to avoid them is a matter of embarrassing difficulty. They are represented by the ''Banner of Light'', which has long been conspicuous for a thick-and-thin defence of all mediums. At a humble distance the ''Medium'' follows, hardly knowing whether to adhere to the general condemnation of public circles, which Mr. Burns very properly uttered some years since, or whether to take some new departure since that publication of the Declaration, which, though signed by over a hundred Spiritualists, representative names in the widest sense, is, of course, not to be entertained for a moment, since it did not emanate from the Spiritual Institution. In spite of this hesitation, there are words of timely wisdom mixed with much that is neither timely nor wise in what is said on Mediumship. The Chicago ''Journal'' is in the van of reform, maintaining its old attitude of uncompromising hostility to anything that wears the guise of fraud. It goes further than we in England have seen our way to go, and the forcible language which it uses may strike some of us as exaggerated, and even intemperate at times; but the stick has become so warped that it is well to bend it strongly in the opposite direction. Substantially the work of the ''Journal'' is the work of ''Light'' and the ''Review''.——The note appended by Mr. Eglinton to his signature is good. He “is opposed to ''all public séances'', whether in the light or the dark, unless the conditions are favourable to a complete investigation.”——The Hon. Roden Noel contributes a most elaborate{{Style S-HPB SB. Continues on|14-145}}

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