THE LOVE LUCIFER.
[The author of 'The Love Lucifer' says in regard to it: 'I enclose
a narration of _facts_. Not noted for assurance, I yet feel well
assured that its publication in THE CONTINENTAL 'will do
uses.'' Should there be any among our readers who have inquired
into our modern necromancy, they will not fail to recognize in the
excited, wild, incoherent, and uncultured jargon of the spirits of
'The Love Lucifer,' the same style and character evinced by those
to whom they may have been introduced by the 'mejums.' The two
Bulwers, the Howitts, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, the Halls, the De
Morgans, &c., have taken a deep interest in these half-comic,
half-serious, and always incoherent demonstrations.
Perhaps the matter-of-fact experience of our author may shield some
of our readers from 'obsessions, delusions, magnetic streams of
Od,' be they angelic, human, demoniac, or Koboldic in their
origin.--_Ed. Con._]
CHAPTER I.
The things herein might well remain in soak for one decade, at least.
The writer certainly did well to let a dozen sane, practical years pass
between these experiences and their narration.
I was a youth after the own heart of my Presbyterian
preceptors--proposed to become a Presbyterian preceptor.
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