From Pat Deveney's journal database:

Revista Universal de Magnetismo Experimental y Terapeutico.
Eco de Todos los Institutos y Sociedades de Magnetismo e Hipnotismo de España y del Extranjero.
1893 Monthly
Barcelona, Spain.
Language: Spanish.
Editor: Math. N. Rovira, Victor Melcior, Jose Cembrano Ferrer.
1/1, 1893.
6 pesetas a year in Spain, 8 pesetas in Europe and 12 abroad.
16 pp.

This journal proclaimed itself the "echo" of other contemporary journals devoted to the subject, but it was really little more than an uncommented-upon reprint of long excerpts (often unattributed) from other sources. The only surviving issue (April 1895) reprinted a long letter of Alfred Russel Wallace to the Times on the scientific approach to spiritualism and how he became involved with it, and a piece of an article or book by Gabriel Delanne, without naming him, on "El Espiritismo Ante La Cienza" that it took from El Sol. The "principal collaborators" of the journal were notable: H. Durville, G. Fabius de Champville, Georges Demarest, E.D. Babbitt, Rene Caillie, J. Roviralta, et al., but their role in the venture can not be determined. The journal did print impressive advertisements for Durville's treatments and magnetic accoutrements and for the "Vivicador del Cabello, Bouquet Magno-Vitalizato," a few drops of which, for 3 pesetas, could cure baldness, and these advertisements may have been the rationale behind the journal's existence. Earlier issues may have been more interesting since literature reviews mention a Russian scientist's discovery of how to photograph magnetism, and the use of magnetism to discover the perpetrators of crimes, but by 1895 the journal consisted mainly of filler. The director of the journal, Dr. Math.-N.-Rovira, as he gave his name, is unknown, except for his having founded the Instituto Magnetico Franco-Espanol. A letter from him to the editor of Constancia survives in that journal, begging mention in its pages: "Not guided by any other motive than to spread everywhere a science as transcendental as hypno-magneticism is, and for the love of the same good, we would see with great pleasure the insertion of some mention of it or of one of its articles in the columns of your worthy newspaper." BNE. Noted in exchanges of Ubersinnliche Welt, 1893.

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