“With regard to the contents of the present volume, there is nothing in it very suggestive of sulphur. No apprehension need be felt if the book be left about the house that the adventurous members of the family circle will commence incantations in mystic robes with the aid of Abracadabra, the Pentagram and incense. In fact, Eliphas over and over again sets his face against amateur attempts at magical practices. The reader may, however, with profit peruse carefully the learned dissertations penned by M. Constant upon the Hermetic art treated as a religion, a philosophy, and a natural science. As a religion, Eliphas holds it to be that of the ancient Magi and the initiates of all ages; as a philosophy its principles are traced in the Alexandrian school, and in the theories of Pythagoras; as a science, he indicates the methods to be ascertained from Paracelsus, Nicholas Flamel, and Raymond Lully. In view of the remarkable exhibitions of mesmeric influence and thought-reading which have recently been given, it is not improbable that the thoughtful reader may find a clue in the writings of this cultured and amiable magician to the secret of many of the manifestations of witchcraft that formerly struck wonder and terror into the hearts of simple folks eager to behold and ready to believe in supernatural powers.” _Fcap. 8vo, cloth, price, including the pack of cards 78 in number, 5s._ =FORTUNE-TELLING CARDS.--THE TAROT; Its= Occult Signification, Use in Fortune-Telling, and Method of Play, &c. By S. L. MACGREGOR MATHERS.