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- spsserA Mr. clouskon i only abs
ts etvs g. st>entsa1 tns1ancs. fron
rsunsnhn. vho wro1s . gui1s BOOK 70
enrsue 0ssssA Il b shs twenty frse
tAs1gesv at "a ssvsn1A book, vhere 10
naaFs - - Achnons. afsss usl<ing
oestain fumtgstiona. lss dDwn . mirror
INTO - holy Wen a DemSters they
thDa Looked Into IL mirror and die
eosnsa whether = sick psrson would
11ve a. H. Mr.. Couseeu snys they saw
4aesA hsa1thy or dissempsrsd. In the
nixror. . eirsurastanes noe mentioned
by Thomas Taylor IN his old trsnsr
1Aston- TIE famous mirror In which
Surrey saw fair Geraldine l. discredited
by Mr.. Clousfcn, who does ncs rely ON
the directions given Ia Reginald Scott's
ssDiscovery Of wstchcrsft.. written in
t5sA classical text with which he does
noe seem ~ b ae4naiuted Any mem
her Of the Psychical Society may try
the experiment for himseh In the hrst
place he must eonciliate his good ge-
niaA Then be retires into his closet
with little table sad silk carpet and
two wsxen candles lighted. as also with
crystal triangular stone about the
quantity Of al apple Then, sitter .
prayer. he must sprinkle every thing
with his own blood, and utter magic
charm or two. and finally sit down
with Bible in one hand and crystal
In the other. The spirit comes in about
quarter cf an hour. bat the curious
thing Is that various pictures first ap-
pear IN tho glass. beginning with .
beaten track or road. travellers, a shep-
herd with sheep. strange Appearances
noises glances ami affrightments,
which shows viii all az last vanish on
thu appearance of the 0enius." Such
things DR.. Dee may have beheld in his
crystal, at least II No believe Goodwin
In his Lives Of the Necromancers." not
exactly contemporary authority. As-
corting To Joachim Camcrarius, quoted
by Mr.. Clouston. the spectator must be
. young boy. or person Of the purest
life. Granvfl quotes . case Of one
Compton. who showed = certain Mr..
Hin his wifs Ia . locking glass. Scott
.uses the iAsa in my Aunt Margaret's
Mirror" but the great masters Of this
art ere Vie modern Egyptians.
Curieusly enosagh, and too late for
Mr. Cloustn's use. Sir Walter Scott
tsrls . long tale of the Egyptian ink
mirror IN hin diary for October. 1881.
He Vas then h London, where people
wue talkiAg a the mystery on the evi-
,dsnce Of Lord Prudhoe, whom
know - IN houcsabls man" At Cairo
Lord Prudbce heard q magician
s1from he interior Of Africa. who gave
IN instance Of his powcrA Lord Prud-
hoe shoss . Eubian boy, IA whose hand
Iths mcclellan drew hind Of pentaele IN
ink. Thsuugh tina - II the substance
,o1 - Ind had been removed" the
fboy ~ whs1 w. ASKED for.
A n Aohss Of old. there were FIRST
funiGoAl1ns a incsnss. then hags and a
sultan appeored These, a. IN
RsghsAd scots's sccomt, were mere
preiiminasy sppsritiom Then shake
spsase We asl<sd fcs. and described IN
scscrdanos with his portraisa Then
the beother Of one Of the English
spectokors was correctly described; he
Asd lost m arm, and this was men
toned In Malta Sir Waiter made in
quiries. end found that Shakespeare
fsheikA sparn originally showed In The
eomphsxioo Of an Arab On the whole,
Sir Waller thought the whole affair an
impossnrs. SIX years later. in his
Egyptian book. Mr.. Lane seemed more
credulouA he gives long account Of
the sfrsis. The boy frss sees . mar
sweeping then . procession of dsgs
then the Sultan; finally he saw and cor
rectfy described Lord Nelson's 'sHe ha,
not lost his lefs arm. h y placed 10 hi
hreasx,- whsre Nelson pinned hi
empty sleeve. Mr.. Lane was puzzled
not % Nh Kingia<s. who tells n
.sEothen" Aow he asked for Keate, thu
famed Etou headmaster. who was de
scvibsd - bsautifnl girl with colder
hair-a very bad shot 1T some non-ex
istenA Kate. Mr.. Clouston has foun<
similar rites h Southern India The
Msories Of New Zealand characteristic
ally nse . drop OF blood instead Of ink
I'm Southern India not . man but
rnonksys sweep the door - prelim
mary vision. The interesting point in
all this farrago 10 the coincidence o
human beiisfs Plsinty enough. II AM
thing - seen ct all. Il is because ths
spectator has hypnosized By staring a
the little pool Of ink. the crystal. o.
WHIST not. which acts tn the same wal
AZ Ne metal disk In hypnotism. HI
then answers 90 suggestions Any
body can try for himself by starin{
into his own ink pot. for the funira
Itsons. pensaeies and prayers are al
mere accidents and ornaments How
ever, most of us might stare . long
time and Be none the wiser.
u>llgf~ns IN the u.sesa ssssssL
The census snnomcement that Their,
ere hundred &Fd forty religious bodies
"a, a. r-~<ta.4 <x<.<oa oxx>1usfv, Of man,