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pitch of disgust. They turn one back with regret to the age of faith and the romantic brush of Tissot. Yet we have to remember that these inquiries are pursued by men

Fig. 332.

whose substantial honesty cannot be fairly questioned and it must be conceded that they take no pains to make their exhibits alluring. In the end these researches may turn back from the ectoplasm in order to

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An impression by the painter Tissot of two figures who appeared during a sutting with the medium Eglington in 1885. (From “ Clatrvoyance and Materialisation,” by Dr. Gustav Geley. Ernest Benn, Lid.)

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illuminate many as yet unexplored subtleties in the psychology and physiology of mediums and investigators. We may ask no longer what they saw and produced, but how they

came to see and produce such things.

It cannot be too insistently repeated that these are highly specialize cl we searches in which the enthusiastic amateur will be welcomed only by experimentalists who are propagandists rather than SiChge mat Thake workers.

A considerable publicity has been given recently to the exploits of a lady in Boston, Mrs. Crandon, better known to the world as “ Margery.” Her principal control is her brother Walter, who was killed in a railway accident in 1912, and most of the ordinary phenomena of séances are well shown in connection with her. She is a pleasant lady with a humorous smile. She has been the subject of acrimonious disputes, challenges, alleged exposures by Houdini, the conjurer ; she has her champions and her manifest enemies. Recently she has attracted the attention of Dr. R. J. Tillyard, an F.R.S.,