The Two Worlds For 1888

The Two Worlds for 1888 is now available on the Archive web site.

• J. B Tetlow kicking off a year's worth of discussion of a "school for prophets" that very much signals the beginning of "institutionalization of spiritualism" as a theme in TTW
• the best article title ever, "Christian Pugilism or Anti-Dancing Piety -- Which?"
• anti-vaccination and anti-vivisection propaganda
• excerpts from both Art Magic and Ghost Land (creating yet more textual issues for your faithful bibliographer)
• the edges of Emma recycling her "Spiritual Gifts" material from The Banner of Light two decades earlier
• "Spiritualism in India" (alas, not local material)
• Lizzie Doten poems galore (where's the Doten scholar?)
• Sirius (bless him!) on Theosphy, Occultism, Spiritualism, Rosicrucianism and FWH Myers
• letters of J.J. Morse on his American tour
• Hudson Tuttle welcomed on Emma's pages (he'll become increasingly someone whose work she'll conjure with)
• Emma slagging off Christian Science (in two editorial slots, no less)
• obituaries for Mary Howitt and Anna Kingsford
• E. W. Wallis taking the lid off the anti-Xian agenda in March with a Rostrum piece entitled "The Disestablishment of Hell"

And that only takes us through March.

Theosophy folks, take note -- the "amorphous opposition" is in full swing this year.

The newspaper changes format in February, moving advertisements to a four-page outer wrapper and running an inner banner. Pay attention to the advertisements -- E. W. Wallis is selling his space to more mainstream merchants, and beginning to take control.