STRANGE VISITORS: A SERIES OF ORIGINAL PAPERS, EMBRACING PHILOSOPHY, SCIENCE, GOVERNMENT, RELIGION, POETRY, ART, FICTION, SATIRE, HUMOR, NARRATIVE, AND PROPHECY. BY THE _SPIRITS OF IRVING, WILLIS, THACKERAY, BRONTE, RICHTER, BYRON, HUMBOLDT, HAWTHORNE, WESLEY, BROWNING_, AND OTHERS NOW DWELLING IN THE SPIRIT WORLD DICTATED THROUGH A CLAIRVOYANT, WHILE IN AN ABNORMAL OR TRANCE STATE. 1871 TABLE OF CONTENTS. HENRY J. RAYMOND _To the New York Public_ MARGARET FULLER _Literature in Spirit Life_ LORD BYRON _To His Accusers_ NATHANIEL HAWTHORNE _Apparitions_ WASHINGTON IRVING _Visit to Henry Clay_ NAPOLEON BONAPARTE _To The French Nation_ W. M. THACKERAY _His Post Mortem Experience_ ARCHBISHOP HUGHES _Two Natural Religions_ EDGAR A. POE _The Lost Soul_ JEAN PAUL RICHTER _Invisible Influences_ CHARLOTTE BRONTE _Agnes Reef. A Tale_ ELIZABETH B. BROWNING _To Her Husband_ ARTEMUS WARD _In and Out of Purgatory_ LADY BLESSINGTON _Distinguished Women_ PROFESSOR OLMSTEAD _Locality of the Spirit World_ ADAH ISAACS MENKEN _Hold Me Not_ N.P. WILLIS _Off-Hand Sketches_ MARGARET FULLER _City of Spring Garden_ GILBERT STUART _Art Conversation_ EDWARD EVERETT _Government_ FREDERIKA BREMER _Flight to my Starry Home_ REV. LYMAN BEECHER _The Sabbath--Its Uses_ PROF. GEORGE BUSH _Life and Marriage in Spirit Life_ JUNIUS BRUTUS BOOTH _Acting by Spirit Influence_ REV. JOHN WESLEY _Church of Christ_ N. P. WILLIS _A Spirit Revisiting Earth_ ALLAN CUNNINGHAM _Alone_ BARON VON HUMBOLDT _The Earthquake_ SIR DAVID BREWSTER _Naturalness of Spirit Life_ H.T. BUCKLE _Mormons_ W.E. BURTON _Drama in Spirit Life_ CHAS. L. ELLIOTT _Painting in Spirit Life_ COMEDIAN’S POETRY _Rollicking Song_ LADY HESTER STANHOPE _Prophecy_ PROFESSOR MITCHELL _The Planets_ DR. JOHN W. FRANCIS _Causes of Disease and Insanity_ ADELAIDE PROCTER _The Spirit Bride_ INTRODUCTION. _BY THE EDITOR_. In placing before the public a work with such novel and extraordinary demands upon its consideration, a few explanatory words seem appropriate. Its title and contents will doubtless at first sight cause a smile of incredulity, and will be regarded by many as one of the devices which are sometimes put forward to entrap an unsuspecting public into the perusal of a sensational hoax. For a number of years past the community has been surprised with accounts of most incredible marvels; and from time to time the press has reported various phenomena in connection with an _unrecognized force and intelligence,_ as occurring in almost every locality throughout the habitable globe.