'The publisher, therefore, presents this volume to the public, in the hope that it will not only gratify the reader of the present, but that it will assist to preserve the 'Spirit of the Fair' for the reader of the future.' THE LITTLE REBEL. Boston: J. E. Tilton & Co. 1864. For sale by Hurd & Houghton, New York. A very interesting book for the little ones. It presents vivid pictures of New England life, and is fragrant and dewy with fresh breezes from the maple bush, the hillside, and the pasture lands. The style is excellent, and the matter as sprightly and entertaining as it is simply natural and morally improving. THE POET, AND OTHER POEMS. By ACHSA W. SPRAGUE. Boston: William White & Co., 158 Washington street. For sale by A. J. Davis, New York. 'Miss Sprague was chiefly known to the world as a trance lecturer under what claimed to be spirit influence. Although speaking in the interest of a faith generally unpopular, and involved in no slight degree in crudities, extravagance, and quackery, she was herself neither fool nor fanatic. She was a true child of nature, direct and simple in her manners, and impatient of the artificiality and formal etiquette of fashionable society.' These poems are characterized by great case of style, flowing rhythm, earnestness in the cause of philanthropy, and frequently contain high moral lessons. But it is somewhat strange that the poems of trance writers and speakers, so often marked by exquisite, varied, and delicate chimes of ringing rhythm, of brilliant words, of sparkling poetic dust blown from the pages of great writers, and drifting through the world, should so seldom give us those great granite blocks of originality, which must constitute the enduring base for the new era therein announced. Is there nothing new in the world beyond the grave which they deem open to their vision? We ask this in no spirit of censure or cavil, for we have no prejudice against the school of spiritualistic literature, save where it militates against the faith in our Redeemer. INDEX TO VOLUME VI. A Castle in the Air. By E. Foxton, 272 Ænone; a Tale of Slave Life in Rome, 10, 149, 254, 408, 519, 610 A Glance at Prussian Politics. By Charles M. Mead, 261, 383 A Great Social Problem. By G. U., 441 American Civilization. By Lieut. Egbert Phelps, U. S. A., 102 American Slavery and Finances. By Hon. Robert J. Walker, 22 American Women. By Mrs. Virginia Sherwood, 416 An Army: Its Organization and Movements. By Lieut.-Col. C. W. Tolles, A. Q. M., 1, 223, 330, 601 A Sigh. By Virginia Vaughan, 355 A Wren's Song, 434