destroyed herself by poison for love of the very man who told me the story! This hand came from beneath the table and extended itself eight or ten inches over the edge at first. Then it gradually rose in the air, displaying a magnificent set of fingers, upon the middle joint of one of which appeared the semblance of a large and peculiarly-shaped brown mole, surrounded by three smaller ones, and it was by these marks that my friend pretended to recognize it. The hand was attached to about two-fifths of a fore-arm, completely covered with the semblance of a lace sleeve, terminating at the wrist in a jewelled band, and at the other extremity by a flaring and projecting ruffle. The hand, after a while, rose into the air, where it floated for two minutes. It then descended, seized hold of a small silver bell upon the mantel and rung it sharply all over the room; after which it replaced it, took hold of a pencil and wrote forty-seven words upon the ceiling of the lofty-vaulted apartment; threw down the pencil, patted each of our hands, and then gradually faded away in the air, just over the centre of the table. We rose after it had gone, placed a stand upon the table, a chair upon that, so as to reach the writing on the wall (which yet remained there), and found a short message to the company in general, and signed by the very name of Mr. ----’s _inamorata of the Isle de Bourbon_! Now, my dear, was all this hum-bug?’ “To this, the lady, whose scepticism would not abate one jot, even in the face of such an--to all but a Rosicrucian--overwhelming demonstration as this, replied: “‘Why, I presume you had all taken a little too much wine, fell asleep, got up, wrote on the wall, and--Bah! It’s all humbug! and that settles the question at once!’ “The lady was silent, and the literary lion--I will call him Mr. A----, for whom the party was gotten up, entered the arena of conversation, and observed that: ‘Spectral or Spiritual science--he preferred the former term--was yet but in its infancy in Christendom, provided what a casual acquaintance of his, a man of extraordinary research in all things occult, and whom he had met under peculiar circumstances but a little while before--affirmed to be true with regard to the faith, philosophy, and practices of a certain branch or rather family of the Hindoos or other Eastern tribes.