Preface (The Night Side of Nature; or, Ghosts and Ghost Seers)

There is one substantial change in the second edition. The 3rd paragraph from the end concludes thus in the 1st ed. (and in the 1850 US 1st ed.): "Heinrick Schubert's is the most celebrated amongst them [certain German books]; it is a sort of cosmogony of the world, written in a spirit of philosophical mysticism--too much so for English readers in general." In the 2nd ed.: "Heinrick Schubert's is the most celebrated amongst them [certain German books]; it is a sort of cosmogony, written in a spirit of philosophical mysticism, which is unpleasing to English readers, in general."

The 1850 US 1st ed. uses the hyphen, as in the book title.