: CIA-RDP96-00792R000700660003-6 Approved For Release 2000/08/11 fournal of the Society for Psychical Research [ Vol. 58, No. 825 number of interesting psychological and sociological questions (“‘How does a scientist decide...” etc.), he seldom provides any answers, although he certainly offers relevant data. However, all this is just nit-picking. It is difficult in Science to attribute a great advance to what some particular person said and did, because all progress depends on the collaborative conflict of numerous actors. Nevertheless, Eysenck shows convincingly that he has been (and remains) a star in this enterprise. His avowed intention was to write mainly about his ideas, and the over-riding disappointment for some will be that the author has not performed the sort of strip-tease that they expect in an autobiography. Nonetheless, with a wealth of often amusing anecdote, he has happily provided a reasonably rounded self-portrait, which should surely dispel the cold-and-calculating, devil-with-homs image which his detractors so enjoy peddling. With his gift for popularisation which eschews the jejune, he has again contributed to the history of ideas in the social sciences in a way which opens windows for those who might not otherwise have been able to see. And perhaps above all, he has set out an inspiring record of remarkable achievement, accomplished in the face of formidable obstacles, by vision, dedication, work, intelligence—and, of course, rather more good luck than bad. In his concluding sentences, Eysenck mistakenly attributes to W. B. Yeats three lines of advice in a poem by Dylan Thomas; a mishap so greatly to the delight of some reviewers as to render them virtually incapable of commenting on anything else in the book. Let this review therefore conclude with some advice that Yeats undoubtedly did offer :— When you are old and gray and full of sleep And nodding by the fire, take down this book © And slowly read . But why wait that long? Faculty of Education and Design W. D. Furneaux Brunel Unwersity, Runnymede Campus Egham, Surrey. TW20 OfZ REFERENCES Eysenck, H. J. and Sargent, C. (1982) Explaining the Unexplained. Book Chub Associates. Kuhn, T. (1962) The Structure of Scientific Revolutions, University of Chicago Press. 102 October 1991] Book Re. PararsycHoLocy: New Sources OF INFORMATION, 1973-1989 by Rhea A.W Scarecrow Press, Metuchen, 1990. xiv +699 pp. $67.50, £50.65. It is tempting to quote Mr Squeers’s ““Heré’s richness!” at the sight of } White’s splendid volume. The book is orgg ised on the same lineggs on: compiled with Laura Dale, entitled, Parapsychology: Sources of Iggorma which was published in 1973, but the present work is more thad twic« size ef the original. The increase is partfy a consequence of incre&ged acl in theNfield, but also it is partly due t6 a change in policy from@eing ; selectiveXor the earlier volume to beigg more comprehensive in (@js one. number oNheadings under. which bopks are grouped in the first@hapte been expanded from 24 to 27; and the numbering is continuogg with of the previou§ book. There is a yew chapter on Government fablicat but the chapter 4n encyclopaedias/has been discontinued. A vergyinstru chapter on ‘New Views of Parapsychology’ covers, such topics @@ anon research, the adventof electroni data-processing, exchanges beeen c and parapsychologists\and recen, changes within parapsychology As readers of the pyevious Nolume will anticipate, a majortomp (pp.1-305) of this workis th¢ list of books in the first chapteg2Each carries a reference numbek and the author’s (or editor’s) name iffheavy followed by the title in italids, pith the place, publisher and year o ublic: the number of pages, any biDjtography, chapter notes, figures and-lustra etc. There are something ap\roaching five hundred titles listedgfand e: followed by a brief—c,100-2Z0Q words—summary of the content¢ pnd a reviews from a variety of pgriojicals, usually including the JASPR, the and the JP. The indexes/list a thors, editors, illustrators, translator introducers in one alphabetical sequence, titles in another andSgubject third. There are also chapters on p arapsychological periodicals, eganis and theses, as well as 4 glossary 4f terms. There are appendiggs of containing glossaries ang illustrations\a list of abbreviations, and&e adc of the less-accessible publishers. NA In any compilation/of this kind there must be a subjective elgment selection of items induded; but I am sirprised that some titles ve no included. Thus three academic studies \of 19th-century Spiritaplism, Barrow’s Independent Spirits (1986), AXn Braude’s Radical Sqyrits ( and Alex Owen’s ffhe Darkened Room (1989) would merit coriderati: general works, Jfhn Beloff’s The Importance of Psychical Res@rch ( Arthur Ellison’s/ The Reality of the Parano\mal (1988), Charlgs McC: Psychical Phernfomena and the Physical Wold (1973) and Fagnk Ti Between Scidace and Religion (1974) would be of value. @rvin ( Parapsycholggy: a Bibliographic Guide (1975) and Nicholas @arke-1 Books on fhe Paranormal (1980) are useful; as are Andre acK: Apparitiong (1980) and David Christie-Murray’s Voices of the Gods ( Martin Gdrdner’s How Not to Test a Psychic (1989) is an imp@rtant « item. ¢ There appear to be very few mistakes in this book, although I was su: to see the historical section of Gauld & Cornell’s Poltergeists (1979) w attributed to Tony Cornell instead of to Alan Gauld. But altogether t. 103