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Based on the first number of the Gentleman's Magazine from January 1731.

The author may be W. H. Wills; the attribution is unconfirmed.

The article forms part of All the Year Round's long-standing campaign against the Spiritualist Movement in Britain, and while maintaining the usual position of scepticism-cum-disapproval, demonstrates (as usual) the journal's continuing fascination with the theme. It has all the hallmarks of being instigated by Dickens, but the style is not his. It is attributed to sub-editor W. H. Wills in Jean Burton's Heyday of a Wizard (London: G. G. Harrap, 1948; p. 174), a biography of Daniel Dunglas Home, the Spiritualist and Medium whose lecture on 'Spiritualism, its Uses and Abuses'  at Willis's Rooms, 15 February 1866, the article roundly criticises (Wills's initials are given, incorrectly, as 'W.G.'). No evidence for the attribution is given; it is repeated in Letters 11, 226n., again without supporting evidence, but both sources are reliable, and in the absence of rival candidates, Wills's authorship seems a fair supposition.

George Wilson, "On the Prevalence of Chromato-Pseudopsis", Monthly Journal of Medical Science (November 1853).

Part of a series of articles on Central and Eastern Europe. See also 'Moldo-Wallachia', Household Words, VIII, No. 183; 'Bucharest', Household Words,VIII, No. 184; 'The Gipsy Slaves of Wallachia', Household Words, VIII, No. 185; 'A Wallachian Squire', Household Words, VIII, No. 189; 'Turks in Bulgaria', Household Words, VIII, No. 190; 'Protégés of the Czar', Household Words, VIII, No. 194; 'A Border of the Black Sea', Household Words, VIII, No. 200.