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_.