Legend
The Liberal(?) Christian
... and set aside " the most stupendous factx of the nineteenth century."
Boston, Mass., May 10th, 1875.
x Stupendous fact? – Stupendous fraud!
From Two Windows
He was young—and he saw the South : |
| Mrs. S. M. B. Piatt. |
A New Contributor
We welcome to our columns a new and most acceptable writer—Mr. Charles Sotheran, an English author of repute, and now the editor of the American Bibliopolist. Mr. Sotheran is a gentleman of extensive reading and ripe culture, who is well-known abroad as the author of several works upon the genealogies and antiquities of the English counties. He has also paid great attention to the literature of the occult sciences, and the article from his pen which appears, in this week’s Scientist, is a brief summary of a most valuable historical paper which he read before the New York Liberal Club, week before last.
The story of Cagliostro's life, as now given, affords us a glimpse at a personage whose deeds and learning were the wonder of his contemporaries—a man of pure life, active benevolence, and, especially, of the strangest psychological powers. He could not only read the lives of those with whom he came in contact, but prophesy their future, heal their diseases, no matter how desperate they might seem, and call up at his pleasure the shades of <... continues on page 3-223 >
Editor's notes
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Spiritual Scientist, v. 2, No. 14, June 10, 1875, pp. 162-3