invincible and overwhelming, of their correctness.--C.G.P., Ed. [4] We were thus given to understand that spirits retain their earthly names, and answer to them. It occurred to us, therefore, that if we put down the name of John Smith we should be sure of a response.--C. G. P., Ed. [5] The expression was very common with them that "_they could rap_, or _had rapped_." Rather careless, certainly! [6] We, of course, had no more thought of electrical agency here than in the rap of an auctioneer's hammer.--C.G.P., ED. [7] We have made excellent rappings with this instrument, and accompanied them with very wonderful communications.--ED. [8] Whatever respect we may have for the memory of the great, we feel at liberty to banter their spirits if we catch them in bad company, and at base tricks.--ED. [9] We believe in the fundamental doctrines of phrenology, but have no faith whatever in this common empirical trade of delineating character promiscuously by the contour of the head alone.--ED. TABLE-TIPPINGS. This fallacy demands our most rigid scrutiny, and none the less of severe reprobation, from the fact that it is engaged in, to a great extent, by respectable and intelligent persons. The business of Spiritual Rappings is a sheer and miserable imposture, and as the performers are obliged to invent and manage the machinery, or whatever instrumentality produces the sounds, there is no possibility of their deceiving themselves. The table-tipping is rather a case of delusion, or self-imposition, though there are occasionally actors in this performance who betray insincerity, and some whose actions give the _lie direct_ to their professions. How it happened that TABLES were selected for the demonstrations of departed spirits, or the operations of the "_new fluid_," is beyond our wisdom to explain. Why should not the pump-handle work _sua sponte_, the cradle rock itself, or the coach start off without horses, as well as tables jump about the room at the mere imposition of hands, or the behest of those wonderful personages entitled _mediums_? Is there any thing in the shape, material, purpose, or history of a table that it should become, _par excellence_, the connecting link between the natural and the spiritual world? or that it should be the great reservoir of electricity, magnetism, "_new fluid_," "_od_," or what not? Perhaps _legs_ are indispensable to this new species of dancing and jumping. But, as in many of the best _authenticated_ cases, the table moves along the floor with a gradual, slow, and dignified motion, without jumping, and more especially as many of the tables are upon castors, we see no reason why wheels should not be better than legs, and why coaches will not do as well, or better, than tables--for the rolling friction is much less than the sliding friction, and carriages could be made very light for this particular purpose. These tipping magicians are not very fruitful in