it will be seen that the author has mixed up the facts of sacred history with fiction, and the truths of the New Church writings with his own speculative inferences. The result is certainly a remarkable and fascinating volume. The reader finds also the evidence in it of much research into those collateral authorities which throw light and illustration upon the subjects of Divine history. The physical character of the Holy Land is made strikingly real, and unconsciously as we read, we are made to take a more living interest in the personages whose representative character only is unfolded in the gospel narrative. The dark themes of ancient magic and modern spiritualism are brought into contact and made to illustrate each other and spiritual laws at the same time. All these, and many other points, are points of undoubted value. There remains only the question of how far it is legitimate to mingle together things sacred and profane in this way, and the judgment upon that question we prefer, as we have already said, to leave with our readers. P.

LIST OF DOCUMENTS CONCERNING SWEDENBORG AND THE NEW CHUCH.

COLLECTED BY R. L. TAFEL, FROM 1868 to 1870.

I. DOCUMENTS CONCERNING SWEDENBORG.

1. Unpublished Documents.

a. Letters and Memorials written by Swedenborg.

b. Letters addressed to Swedenborg.

c. Miscellaneous Documents.

2. Published Documents, but not yet translated into English and German. 3. Originals of Documents previously published.

4. Documents concerning Swedenborg's Writings, both published and in manuscript.

II. UNPUBLISHED DOCUMENTS CONCERNING THE NEW CHURCH.

I.-DOCUMENTS CONCERNING SWEDENBORG.

1. Unpublished Documents.

a. Letters and Memorials written by Swedenborg.

Nos. 1-24. Letters addressed by Swedenborg to Ericus Benzelius; all of these letters were discovered in the Cathedral Library in Linköping.

1-7 are letters written by Swedenborg between 1709-1713, two of them were written in Sweden, four in London, and one in Paris. An abstract of these letters was published in the New Jerusalem Messenger in the beginning of 1869. No. 8 is a letter written in French, in the year 1715, and No. 9 a letter, dated June 6, 1726. None of these letters had previously been copied.

10-24. Belong to a series of forty-one letters which were written by Swedenborg from 1714-1724. The whole of this series had been copied for the Swedenborg Association, and the first twenty-six letters were translated into English, and published in the New Churchman, London, in 1856; the remaining fifteen letters are still untranslated. Twelve of these letters had also been copied for Professor Atterbom in Upsala, and they were published by him in the Appendix to his "Siare och Skalder;" Professor Atterbom's copy, I think, is now preserved in the University Library in Upsala, where it was shown to Dr. Bayley in 1868.

25. A letter addressed to Landshöfding Ribbing, preserved in the Royal Library in Stockholm.

26. A letter addressed to Schönstrom, in the possession of Count Hamilton.

27. A letter, dated November 7, 1722, on money affairs, communicated by Mrs. Ehrenborg.

28-37. Letters addressed by Swedenborg to the College of Mines, from 1720-1743. In No. 28, dated June 19, 1720, Swedenborg gives an account to the College of what he has done since receiving his appointment as assessor; he also applies for salary. In No. 29, dated June 30, 1721, he informs the College that he is going abroad in order to print some works, and to inspect some foreign mines and furnaces, and he asks for instructions. In No. 30, dated September 16, 1723, he informs the College that he has learned a new process of making steel in Vienna. In No. 31, dated October 29, 1723, he asks leave of absence in order to look after some property in the country. In No. 32, dated June 16, 1724, he thanks his colleagues for having interceded in his behalf with the king in order to induce him to grant him the salary which had become vacant by the preferment of one of the councillors of Mines. No. 33, dated February 14, 1725, contains his report about the machines and models belonging to the College. In No. 34, dated May 27, 1725, he tries to prevail upon the College to order an airpump from England, showing the use of the same. In No. 35, which is dated Leipzig, January 19, 1734, he asks for an extension of his leave of absence in order to enable him to finish the printing of his "Principia." In No. 36, dated May 26, 1736, he asks his colleagues to support with the king his application of leave of absence for three or four years, in order to enable him to prosecute his studies in the foreign libraries. In No. 37, dated June 17, 1743, he asks a like favour from his colleagues, in order to enable him to go abroad and print his "Animal Kingdom."

38-40. Swedenborg's letters to the king, preserved in the Royal Archives in Stockholm.-In No. 38, dated May 31, 1736, Swedenborg applies to the king for leave of absence for several years in order to enable him to prosecute

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his studies and investigations abroad. In No. 39, written in 1743, Swedenborg applies for a passport. In No. 40, dated June 2, 1747, he applies to the king for a release from his duties as an assessor.

41. A letter without any date, about the change of colours in metals; in the collection of letters copied by Bergius preserved in the Library of the Academy of Sciences.

42. A letter, dated September 16, 1745, addressed to a certain Councillor of Chancery, in which Swedenborg promises to lend him a work, written by himself, on the intellectual mind and the soul, preserved in the Royal Library.

43. A letter, without any date, addressed to Count Hopken, accompanying the gift of Swammerdam's "Biblia Naturæ," of which Swedenborg says that he has no longer any use; in the possession of Dr. Loven of the Carolinska Institutet.

44. A letter, dated August 11, 1760, to Count Gustav Bonde on the dangers of spiritualism.

This letter was first discovered by Dr. Kahl in the Bergius' Collection, and a translation of it was sent by him some years ago to the Intellectual Repository, where it was published at the time. The original letter itself is preserved in the archives at Säfstaholm, of which an accredited copy was sent to me, signed by Count Sparre and Baron Leijonhufvud. A new translation, prepared from the original letter, was published last year in the New Jerusalem Messenger and the Intellectual Repository.

45-47. Letters addressed to the Councillor of Commerce, Nordencrantz, with whom Swedenborg had a spirited discussion on the finances of Sweden, before the Swedish Diet in 1760 and 1761. Several of the papers belonging to this discussion were published by Dr. Kahl in his work, "The New Church and its influence in Sweden." They were found by him in the MSS. work registered under No. 31 in the "Results."-Nos. 45, 46 were discovered in the Bergius' Collection, and No. 47 in MSS. No. 31, mentioned above.

48. A short letter addressed to Bishop Filenius, dated January 6, 1763, in which Swedenborg congratulates him at his marriage with his niece.

49, 50. Two letters addressed to Bishop Doctor C. J. Benzelius; in the former Swedenborg writes him that he sent him a copy of the reprint of his method of longitude in 1766; and in the second he writes him the substance of his letter to the three Swedish universities.-Nos. 48-50 are preserved in the Cathedral Library in Linkoping.

51, 52. Two minor letters addressed to Dr. Beijer, which were found in the Collection of Swedenborg's Letters to Dr. Beijer, which was restored to the Academy of Sciences this year.

53. A letter addressed by Swedenborg to Mr. Ahlstromer, contained in the same collection.

54-56. Papers on the improvements of copper-mining in Sweden. No. 54 is a memorial addressed to the king, dated Juły 14, 1722, in which Swedenborg criticizes the methods of obtaining copper in Sweden, and proposes the introduction of some new methods by which the yield of copper

may be increased ten per cent. No. 55 is a memorial signed by the master miners of Fahlun, stating their objections to Swedenborg's method; in No. 56 Swedenborg answers their objections.

57, 58. Two memorials read before the Swedish Diet in 1723 and 1725, in which Swedenborg advocates the expediency of abolishing a law, according to which the mining of nobler metals as silver and copper is encouraged at the expense of the ignobler metals, as iron, etc.

59. A memorial read before the Swedish Diet in 1723, on the encouragement of the manufacture of iron in Sweden.

60-71. Papers belonging to Swedenborg's law-suit with Brita Behm. Brita Brehm, one of his relations, it seems, was the owner of four-fifths of the iron-furnace at Axmar, and Swedenborg the owner of the other fifth. As Brita refused to give to Swedenborg what was due to him, he took recourse to the College of Mines, in order to be protected in his right. As Swedenborg was his own lawyer, it is interesting to watch the course of this law suit.

N.B.-Nos. 54-71 are all preserved in the Archives of the College of Mines.

72. A memorial read before the Diet about Count Hopken's administration; contained in the Bergius' Collection.

73-78. Papers belonging to the controversy of Swedenborg with Prof. Celsius in Upsala, contained in the Archives of the Academy of Sciences. Swedenborg, in his "Principia," had given the formulæ according to which the declension of the magnetic needle may be computed for every place on the earth's surface. In 1740 Prof. Celsius read a paper before the Academy of Sciences, in which he gives the declension of the magnetic needle for Upsala and Tornea, computed by Mag. Hioster, according to Swedenborg's formulæ, and compares them with the actual observations as made by himself, where he shows that Swedenborg in the computation for Upsala was wrong 8 deg. 13 min., and in the computation for Tornea 7 deg. 17 min. This paper, which was printed in the "Transactions of the Academy," is our No. 73. No. 74 is a lengthy answer of Swedenborg to this paper, in which he makes the computation for these two places himself, and shows that his a priori computation differs from the actual observation only one minute. No. 75, containing Prof. Celsius' remarks upon Swedenborg's paper, which is accompanied by No, 76, containing Mag. Hioster's computation, and No. 77, containing the Magister's strictures of Swedenborg's paper. No. 78, finally, is a short paper by Swedenborg, in which he vindicates his own computation, and points out some errors in the Magister's computation, by which the whole of it was falsified.

79. A long paper on the policy of Sweden with the other European powers, especially with Russia, being No. 1 in a manuscript volume entitled "Riks dagsskrifter," see "Results," No. 31.

80. A memorial on Sweden's finances, being No. 4 in the same volume. 81-86. Various papers belonging to Swedenborg's discussion with the Councillor of Commerce, Nordencrantz, before the Swedish Diet; in the same MSS. volume.

b. Letters addressed to Swedenborg.

87. A letter from Prof. Elvius, dated Upsala, July 23, 1711, and addressed to Swedenborg while in London, concerning the latitude of Upsala.

88. A letter from Ericus Benzelius, dated April 2, 1716, in which he informs Swedenborg that the second number of the "Dædalus Hyperboreus" is finished; both these letters are preserved among the Benzelius' papers in Linköping.

89-91. Three letters from E. Benzelius, of the years 1722, 1723, 1725; they are found in the Bergius' Collection.

92-98. Seven letters addressed by Ch. Polhem to Swedenborg from 1715 to 1717, chiefly on subjects connected with the publication of the "Dedalus Hyperboreus;" among the Polhem Papers collected by E. Benzelius, which are preserved at Linköping.

99. A letter addressed to Swedenborg by his brother, Jesper Swedenborg, dated February 26, 1725, in which the latter informs him that he is about going to America, and desires to have some money from his brother Emanuel.

100, 101. Two letters addressed to Swedenborg by his father, Jesper Swedberg, in 1730 and 1731; in one of them the bishop asks his son to write some Latin verses for him, "because he thinks a great deal of his verses."

102-105. Four letters addressed to Swedenborg by his brother-in-law, J. Unge, from 1725 to 1731; in one of them he chides Swedenborg for not getting married.

106, 107. Two letters addressed to Swedenborg in 1739 and 1740 by his brother-in-law, Lars Benzelstierna, in which the latter gives an account of the doings in the College of Mines during his absence, and also informs him of the safe arrival of a very handsome marble table with inlaid work, which is still preserved in the College.

108. A letter of the Councillor of Mines, J. F. Henkel in Freyberg, Saxony, dated November 21, 1732, in which he asks Swedenborg's assistance in the preparation of a mineralogical dictionary.

109. A letter, in Latin, by Jacob Forskal, in which he pays some great compliments to Swedenborg's learning, and asks him to send him a copy of his mineralogical work as soon as it would be published; he also says that he shall gladly send him the money for it; dated August 27, 1734.

110, 111. A letter from Count Bonde, August 7, 1760, enclosing a letter written in German by Baron von Hatzel, which elicited Swedenborg's letter to Count Bonde; see our No. 44.

112, 113. Two letters addressed by the Councillor of Commerce, Nordencrantz, to Swedenborg in 1761, in which he complains of Swedenborg's strictures of his book.

All these letters, from No. 99 to 113, are to be found in the Bergius' Collection of letters, which is preserved in the Academy of Sciences in Stockholm. 114, 115. Two letters addressed to Swedenborg by Dr. Hartley in 1769, the second of which elicited a letter of Swedenborg, which is known as his autobiography. These letters, which were formerly in Count Engeström's Library, are now preserved in the Royal Library in Stockholm.

116. A letter addressed to Swedenborg by Dr. Beijer, dated March 18, 1766; this letter also is contained in the Bergius' Collection.

c. Miscellaneous Documents.

117. Extract from a paper by the late council-man and senior, Jacob Ingleson, which he sent on May 17, 1716, to the Court of Mines at Fahlun, in which he gives an account of several old families around the coppermines. This extract, which gives an account of Swedenborg's paternal ancestors, was copied by Peter Svedberg, and sent to Swedenborg.

118. A letter by P. Schönström to E. Swedenborg giving an account of his maternal ancestors. Both these letters are contained in the Bergius' Collection.

119. Instruction sent to Swedenborg in London by the Literary Society in Upsala in 1711. Contained among the Benzelius' papers in Linköping.