The New York herald., 1877-02-02
BROWN THE MIND READER.

s'Know thysef'' the advice Of the Grccian sage,
but, know everybody's mind, that seems be the
profession OF Mr. j. X. Brown, who made his first
public appearance last night at Chckering Hall MIR.
Brown claims the possession Of clairvoyant powers
In a wonderful degree. Mesmcr and Gag ostro first
developed In the last century that occult science
which hangs between fraud and mystery Mahomets q
coffin hung between heaven and earth. Since then
there have been hundred pretenders-Home Slade,
Foster, and any number OF wonen-who when they
shut their eyes see more than they ever could when
they open Ono medium has a strange affection
for Shakespeare, aud revelations from the
seventh sphere, which the immortal Williams says
.To be to be, is the question" Another is
in sleep confidential with the ghost Of Edgar Allan
Poe and is informed by him that grim ghostly
raven from the nights Piutouian shore should have
said "Evermore," instead oi the melancholy refrain
which We know.
Materializcd spirits have come out Of wardrobes in
the person Of Kate King aud Anne Fay but have Tor.
gotten get checks Tor their overcoas All sorts of
tricks boen played by these spirits, quite so
good as those oil Heller, the Hernlans, or me late
Sgnor Bitz, yet claiming 10 be revelations from tho
world OF splrits. Mr. Brown makes cMni uf tho
Kind. He knows nothing OF ,he next world, pui pro-
fesscs that by placing his hand upon the brow OF
another person or by taking his hand he Is able 10
divine his secret thoughts Such man deserves to
be avoided Mr Brown would not be considered
nce young man tor cinncr party roiu Hoods
OF the servant girl Who encountered the
famous III nd reader who could read q book ulndioId
BY placing IL between his shoulders Is not forgotten.
ssLord,u she SAID, ''if he read book behind
his back what Is the use of b0dy's wear.
ing clothes?'i and rushed out Of the room.
Mr. Brown VIC should take to be very aisag greeable
young gentleman 10 meet II one wished TO keep a
secret, aud yet IT Mr.. Brown wished 10 borrow 50
doubt if he could tell who tho devil would lend II to
him. There is question but that certain sympathy
exists between different people. There is thing
us instructive recognition OF vice or virtue. Men
read each others characters the lace or the eye,
and love at first sight Is not fancy but "a truth. The
psychologists Will tell that Individuality Is one OF
inc greatest mysteries OF nature Mr.. Brown admits
IT, ana profcsscs that does not know how he works
his miracles and only CLAIMS that he cffects them
There is certainly mysterious element In humanity
by which all men are bound together like LINKS in a
cham We think that this young man has an unex-
plaincd power by which he ~ enabled TO ascertain the
ideas concent rated in the minds 0 the persons with
whom he is in contact That he Is not mere leger-
dematnist Is certain. He has been tested IN many
cities aud by critical minds, and, while he has faed Ia
certuln experiments. others have been 40 successful
that they have defed ordinary explanation. Mnny
people have imagined Mr.. Brown TO be fraud peo-
Die no do not know why they arc whence they came
6r where they going 10, and who cannot tell
whether Of they are the actors or specta.
tors: who never above the commonplace level and
arc utterly ignorant OF the mysteries which surround
the soul ss tho and myslicai sky cnvclops this
I,ttIs world. THAT Mr. Brown should solve the mys.
tories Of existence Is impossible, but that he should
add 10 them IL likely
The public has been 30 often deceived that regards
all smplrc ell orts to reveal the strange
au9pathiss Of mankind which, like subtsssaasAn