New-York tribune., 1902-08-17
THE BRITISH MONTHLIES
EXTRACTS FROM THE MOST INTEREST
ING FEATURES OF THE MAGA-
ZINES AND REVIEWS.
rHE FoRETELLING OF THE FUTURE

.,ors in Paris She claims to incarnate. in her
hypnotic state, the spirit Of an unknown niue
rirI called julia Having made me sit down at
a table that stood between US, she begged me
10 tutsyer Julia and TO speak TO her gently. as
one speaks 10 a child Of seven or eight years
ThereupOn her features, her eyes. ItT h]1iuS'
her Ehole body were for some seconds unpieaS-
antly cOnyulsed; her hair came united; ana lAe
expression Of her face changed completely ana
became artless. pueTile- The voice, shTil ana
clear of a small child next came from that great
ripe wonaan's body and asked with little lisp:
what do you want? Are you worried2 Is IL
for yourself some one else that You nave
come 10 see me-"
For myself
"Very well: will you help a little? Lead
me in thought to the place where your worries
ere"
I concentrated my attention on the pro1vct
with which / was engrcSsed and on the different
sctors in he as yet hidden little drama Then
gradually, after some preliminary groupings, anu
vitbout my helping her with a word or gesture
she really penetrated into my thoughts, read
then. to speak, as a slightly Ve.ied pook'
psacpd the situation Of the most accurate
" recognized the principal characters and de-
scribeG them summarily. with hopping and
childish but quantity correct and precise itue
That's very good. julia then said; but
know ali that; what you ought 10 tel me Is
What is going to happen, what is going to
happen . you want to know all that is
going to happen; but it's very difficult
But stiIl? How VIII the business endE ShaN
7 VIM"
'Yes. yes. / see: don't be afraid. III help you;
But the enemy of whom YOU told me: the one
who Is resisting me and who wishes me III
No, no, he wishes you no III; L because "-
some one else ! can't see why
He bafes him oh be hates him, h. hates
him And it is because you like the other one
SO much that he does not want you TO 90 lo-
him what you want 10 do
What she said was true
But tell me- insisted, will he go on 10 the
end will he not yield?''
oh DO not fear him see ne is H.
be Will not live long
You are mistaken, Julia: 1 him two Gays
"Io no he is iH It doesn't show. but
he is very i'll he must die soon
But how in that case. and why
There is blood upon him. around him. every
+Blood? Is il q dueI?" q had thought. for a
moment that 1 might be called upon to fight my
adversary An accident a murder, a re-
Fenge?" (He unjust and unscTupuiouS
nan, who had done much harm to many peopleo
No. ask me no more. L am very tired
Not before 1 know
mo, can tell YOU nothing more / am
too tired let me go BE goco
The same attack as at the start then CON
yuLed the body. in which the little voice had
ceased; and the mask Of forty years again Gov
cred the face Of the woman, who seemed to be
waking from long sleep
Is it necessary TO add that we had never seen
each other before this meeting, and that We
knew as little Of one another as though We had
eeen born On different planets?
In so far as I am concerned Julia's prophecy
was realized in part-that is to say. although
did not triumph IN respect of the main point
The affair WAS nevertheless arranged in "A sat
isfactoTy manner. As for the death of my
adversary, il has not yet occurred, and gladly
90 dispense the future from keeping the
promise which il made by the innocent
mouth Of the child OF unknown world.
What would like TO unrayel in Julia.S pre-
olcnons Is The unknown part fOI eign to my
Sell Did she 20 beyond what / knew? / do
Hot think SO When she spoke to me Of the
fortunate issue of the affair. this was, upon the
whole, the issue which i anticipated, and which
ue selfish and unaYoWed part Of my instinct de-
ereo more keenly than the complete triumph
Hhcn another and more generous sentiment
.Asoe II incumbent me to pursue and hope
iOr, although knew il to be, in its essence I'M
possible. When she foretold the death Of my
doFersary, she but revealing a secret wish
o that same instinct, Of those dastaTdly
aho shameful wishes which we hide from our
Selves, and which never rise to the surface OF
our thought. There would be real prophecy
N this, except If. against all expectation
Hsaind all likelihood. that death should occur
fsuooenly within a short time hence But, even
II We're shortly TO occur. 1t would not, l think
e ihe Pythian that would have fatholned the
..a1ure. but i. my instinct my unconscious being
tnat would have foreseen event with which
~ vas connected IL would have read the pages
W Time. not absolutely and though in "A
universal book, where all that Is to take place
written. but by me. through me, in my pri-
.ale intuition. and would but have translated
ma my unconscIousness was unable TO com
nniuhicate TO my thought-(Ma Maeter-
Nhck, IN The FOrtnightIy Review
ST MARTIN AND HORSESHOES.
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